Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Near Memorial Hall was recently set a charming statue of John Harvard. The young clergyman sits in his chair, his pulpit robe thrown around hime, his book open on his knee, his thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward...
...interesting struggle seems not to be near by. The college will wait with feverish excitement for the outcome of the political fruit or job which is certain to make an appearance before many days. For the present no serious outbreak need be expected, and affairs will probably remain tranquil, with a chance that the contestants will not resort to violence until after the examinations...
...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...
...years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder, or in the swelling choral tones that come from "One equal temper of heroic hearts" bound to be heard or smash something? Now. there...
...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...