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...attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is quite a parallel case near at hand; and those of us who are not over-gifted with the calm and tranquil mind, now and then regret the extinction of certain good old college customs, that have in times past, constrained the attention of our college Parliament in a similiar manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/18/1884 | See Source »

...sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green, at the futile yearnings of the left fielder after a high ball. [Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1884 | See Source »

Hollow as ever vexed the tranquil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/18/1883 | See Source »

...fades in the tranquil silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMER IDYL. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass in a day's ride, - and I promise you there the respect due a stranger to our shores, to your attainments, your industry, and your large, generous and tranquil nature. Or should you decide to return here, and not bear further abuse, come to my housetop and abide with me, where you will be welcomed and loved as a brother. And bear this in mind my dear boy: The more you are abused the more welcome you will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

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