Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree form an agreeable contrast to the more solemn and dignified proceedings in the Chapel. Seniors are not the less gentlemen for showing for a few moments that they still have youthful spirits, and rowdies they do not show themselves...
...considerable time, will be able to nominate the literary representatives of a class with more accuracy than will the greater number of outside barbarians, whose attention has never been regularly drawn to the subject, and whose judgment has never had a chance for regular exercise; and it is still more reasonable to suppose that a limited number of men of fashion can select a more fitting incumbent for a purely social office than can a great assemblage, to many of whom society is but a name. As men must be nominated, then, it would seem decidedly best that they should...
...Rules and Regulations are subject in one sense to temporary changes, and the notices on the Bulletin Board take precedence in any conflict. No mention in the Rules is made respecting the Seniors' privilege of voluntary recitations, as this system is still an experiment, and due notice of the privilege has been posted; unfortunately, too many students seem inclined to cut to excess, regardless of "the hopes of future years." Many absences that would be excused readily are left to swell the total of cuts, and the percentage of attendance is lowered; and when the system is carefully reviewed...
...parts of the hill are scattered in little groups gentlemen and ladies, boys and girls, - of all ages, from fifteen to thirty, - married and single, engaged, and still to have that pleasure. Instead of sleds they are dragging up the hill "taboggins," which is the Indian sled, and which finds a mate in the bark canoe. They are made of thin pieces of cedar-wood, which have been planed perfectly smooth; these pieces are bent up at the front so as to form a sort of runner, but the boards themselves lie flat on the snow, being fastened together above...
...holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still the calf kept a "leetle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately, - sp-t-t-t-r, - the boiler ripped, all the water...