Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...still he rowed on, with excitement quite warm...
...shadows are bright and still softly they fall...
From subscriptions $1,085.50 are still due. If this is not paid within the next week, there will be serious difficulty in paying the expenses of the crew. About one hundred dollars is due on rests, which must be paid, or the boats will be moved out of the boat-house...
...Paddock elms; of that perfect monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial town it was in "Ye Olden Tyme"; but Faneuil Hall, the Old South, the Old North, St. Paul's, Brimstone Corner, King's Chapel, and the Old State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle lost and a cause won, the tall, gray, melancholy shaft on Bunker Hill rises; 'rises till it meets the sun in his coming, while the earliest light of morning gilds...
...College who have not at some period or another during the course received below fifty per cent on an examination. Low marks resulting from circumstances outside the real knowledge of the subject are of course not as likely to come in the Senior year as in any other; still, they may then come, and one mark of below fifty on either examination of the year, no matter what the marks are, in recitations or on the other examination, the result to a Senior is fatal. To make the degree depend upon one trial, I always supposed to be contrary...