Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scholars, but thank them for the inestimable service of keeping alive the conception of a better state of things. We can but take the hint, and while fearing that the article will have little effect in reforming degraded students, are deeply thankful that in one breast, at least, still glows that "lofty morality" which "keeps alive the conception of a better state of things." After a prayer for more earnest action and "enthusiasm of the idea," - one cannot help wishing that the writer had a little more enthusiasm for the facts, - we are told that...
...Athletic sports on Saturday last were interesting, and a decided improvement on previous meetings, both in their management and in the time made by the contestants. Still the time was in some cases too slow, and the number of contestants too few. That out of more than seven hundred men only twenty-seven should enter for such contests is absurd, and shows a great lack of interest on the part of the students in general...
...Still in dreams the angry billows...
...they still kept beating northward...
...possible way without further responsibility on his part. He knows that a great deal of money will be spent, - much more than is necessary, he often finds, when he has no longer any means of redress. Their labors ended the committee make a report, stating, probably, that they are still in debt, and proceeding to levy an assessment which is, or is not, paid without one word of public comment on the manner in which the committee have performed their duties. The habit thus formed he continues through College, arguing that it would be impossible to influence his class...