Word: disturbed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well within his power. In "The Wizard of the Garden," he has a simple plot,--merely the growth of friendship between a lonely old man and an imaginative boy. Perhaps he has not always made the latter's talk sufficiently childlike, but possibly he was afraid thus to disturb the charming atmosphere of romanticism in which his characters dwell. His story has truth to human nature and beauty of expression. For publishing work of this quality, the editors of "The Advocate" are to be commended...
...game must be started promptly at 3.30 o'clock in order to ensure its being finished before dark. To obviate all possibility of unfairness or interference on the part of the spectators, it has been decided to call the game off in case anything occurs to disturb the progress of the play...
...called "Harvard indifference," merely because we have two defeats behind us and a hard game ahead? Let us ignore technical perfection for a few days. No team ever won a real victory by that alone, and many "invincible" teams have learned that the right sort of a fight will disturb the most thoroughly perfected plans...
...general opinion among Seniors who have the privilege of rooming in Hollis or Stoughton that the obsolete custom of having prolonged bell-ringing at seven A. M. is a nuisance, and that as such it should be discontinued. It is unkind to oblige an octogenarian bell-ringer to be disturbed unnecessarily early every morning, and it is certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early...
...every class and College victory from now until Class Day is to be celebrated by the same kind of boisterous and untimely disturbance which the Freshmen chose on last Friday night after winning the interclass crew races, Cambridge will be a poor place to sleep and study for the final examinations. We do not wish to insinuate that the members of the Freshman Class are the only ones guilty of these midnight gatherings on street-corners, where the sole qualification for leadership is a loud voice and an untiring purpose to wake every student within a radius of several blocks...