Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view of the races, and prove an annoyance to the contestants. In years past, complaint has always been made on this score, and it is now certainly time to establish a new order of things whereby the spectators may be able to see all that is going on and still be kept back in the seats where they belong...
...eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would still be one of the gravest of falsehoods: it would be a falsehood because it is meant to convey the impression abroad that the whole system of Harvard is wrong, that from its very position the University must have a fatal effect upon the characters of large numbers of men within...
...little volume is edited by Oscar Fay Adams, well known in literary circles both in and out of Cambridge, with the assistance of Prof, William J. Rolfe, the Shakespearian scholar. The book is mainly designed for young students of English literature, who, lacking time for an exhaustive study, are still desirous of becoming familiar with William Morris's work. Mr. Adams's selection of poems seems to be a very happy one for this purpose. The introduction, though short, is valuable to a just appreciation of the poet, and the excellent notes contribute largely both to the enjoyment and understanding...
Finally, as we have had occasion to mention in a previous issue, the college authorities have been obliged by law to put fire escapes into the rooms of the college buildings occupied by students. It would be seem, however, that the work is still incomplete. We have received complaints from various sources that the rooms in Holyoke House have not yet received proper attention, a fact which can be accounted for only by surmising that the authorities have considered that these rooms either are not exposed to the dangers of a great fire, or that the almost inaccessible iron fire...
...Harvard team played with more snap yesterday than in any previous game. The high tackling of the team and the slowness in getting through are still the most serious faults...