Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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With the pie he grew still bolder...
...well known that open scholarships do an important work in the English universities, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that they would prove still more beneficial here. It has indeed been objected to a limited class of them, - those open to competition by examination before entering college, - that they stimulate the schools in a way that is not always healthy. But so far as relates to scholarships awarded for general proficiency displayed during the college course, the foreign verdict seems to be wholly favorable. And this judgment would certainly be confirmed in this country, where the rich and poor...
Then followed a curious rumbling from a set of pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...
COMPLAINT has been frequent in the past, and is still repeated, because students are not allowed to use certain books in the Library. We hear the aggrieved ones talking about an index expurgatorius, about treating the students as school-boys, and about the true purpose of the Library. Now, whatever cause for complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings...
...desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges. And it is not necessarily a false pride which restrains many parents from exposing their financial condition to the authorities of Harvard College, and causes them to object to have...