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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHILE still Olympus was the golden dwelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CYNICISM. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...forest are still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHINESE LEGEND. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...best essay from any member of any department of Harvard College. He assigned for a subject, "Universal Peace and the Methods by which War may be permanently suspended." Though none recognized more fully than he that armed injustice must be crushed by the strong hand of power, he still numbers himself among those who believe that in some future age the Diplomat shall entirely supersede the General. It is a matter of some doubt, perhaps, whether Universal Peace shall dawn before the Millennium. Matters of boundary-lines may be decided by councils, and wars of territorial aggrandizement cease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though Boston has lost its Granary Elms, let Harvard still retain the beautiful foliage of its college elms, and afford some material for the sentimentalists of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...college. In reply to the fifth toast, "The Boating Interest," Mr. D. C. Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability would have a crew on the river in the spring. As nearly every one of the speakers had alluded in one way or another to the "Ball Interest," Mr. N. W. Perry found the subject rather exhausted when he rose to respond to the toast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOPHOMORE CLASS SUPPER. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

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