Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, - the account of the foot-ball match, for instance, that of the boat-race, and the description of Class Day. The tone of the book is thoroughly good and manly, always excepting the love-scenes, which give little pleasure and excite still less sympathy...
...occasional poco can still be seen in spite of the signs in the entries...
...colder still the heart within thy breast...
Resolved, That while he reflected high credit on himself and his class by the excellence of his scholarship, he endeared himself still more to them by his upright character, his generous disposition, and his genial manners. While we grieve that he should be taken away so early, we are thankful for the opportunity we have had for his acquaintance, and we deeply sympathize with his family in a loss the greatness of which knowledge of him enables us to appreciate...
...then do it because she failed to do it. Drown your grief, if you can't celebrate a victory." We sincerely hope that the Yale men will have a chance to "drown their grief." The usual cut is poorly enough drawn, and the joke beneath it is still worse. It may be intelligible to the Yale mind, but we are obliged to confess that the point is too deep...