Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...increased use of the Library since the cases of curiosities have been removed from the main room must have been remarked by many, and we hope that when the addition is made to the building the increase will be still greater. But there is one hindrance to the use of the Library which is due to the students themselves; for of late there has been much annoyance caused by the thoughtlessness of some students, who consider the reading-room a place for conversation or animated discussion on some point in their text-books. Discussion is very good in the right...
...afternoon, and would be of use but for its coming at such a time, and making it impossible to give continuous attention to the study of an afternoon lesson. This inconvenience could be easily overcome by having lunch served from twelve to half past one, and there would still be a half-hour more between breakfast and lunch than there was before April...
...dearer still, to dream our life away...
...gold. And yet thy lips are mute and still...
...this town was as curious as its existence. The government passed a law that all the men should get up at twenty minutes past four A. M., and assemble at the "Chapel"; there every man was required, under penalty of twenty-four marks, (was the whipping-post still in use?) within fifteen minutes, to write and hand in "a theme and forensic." We are ignorant of the reasons for this most extraordinary enactment; it looks like wanton oppression. Neither are we informed as to the nature of the "theme and forensic...