Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...followed by President Eliot, the last speaker. President Eliot characterized the best Harvard man as the gentleman who is also a democrat. Two requisites for a gentleman, he said, are quiet tastes, and a disposition to see the superiorities in people and to desire association with one's superiors. Then, too, a gentleman should be generous, a thing not incompatible with being poor in money. Life should conform to one's resources. A real gentleman will always be considerate of those whom he employs, and above all he will never do anything injurious to a creature weaker than himself...
...Allen, M.A., will conduct a "Quiet Hour for College Men," at the Church of the Advent, Mt. Vernon and Brimmer streets. Boston, at 8 o'clock Friday evening. The subject for the meditation will be "The Easter Message to Young...
...careless and crude in technique, is effective as a whole and symbolizes well what everyone is thinking today--"Who will win?" The first editorial is unusually good, and the second, more serious in tone than the ordinary Lampoon editorial, is a forceful statement and reminder of that deeper, more quiet sentiment which is the spirit of Harvard and underlies the cheering and singing and shouting which are the superficial manifestations of this spirit; the earnestness of the editorial makes it strong, though at times it carries it too far--into a somewhat censorious criticism of the noisier form of enthusiasm...
...before it leaves for New Haven. From 3.10, when play will begin, the practice will be open until 3.30, when the field will be cleared and the eleven given secret practice. Tonight the team will sleep in the Stillman Infirmary, in order that the men may be assured of quiet; tomorrow morning the team will leave for the Pequot Club, at New Haven...
Professor Peabody, the next speaker, said: It is some months before the new student becomes conscious of the great simple religious movement sweeping through our midst. It is difficult to observe our religion on the surface, because we are quiet; perhaps we are too reserved. Our religion is that of character rather than creed. Chapel services here have long ceased to be a thing of compulsion, they are a privilege. Those of us who desire, meet simply in Appleton Chapel for fifteen minutes every morning, to ask a word of consecration on the day's work...