Word: quieting
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...readers of your paper with a great calamity that has come upon this university, at present so devoted to study. Zion's Herald has left us in peace, Joseph Cooke has gone West on an exhibition tour as an "Eastern dude," while Gen. Butler has retired to the quiet of his study with a borrowed copy of a degree and the "trot" furnished by the Advertiser. But no sooner do these deadly foes of Harvard retire from the attack than an old foe re-appers on the scene - the "musical fiend...
...class race as seen from the top of the Union boat-house was one of considerable interest. A good deal of quiet excitement was manifested as the boats came down the course, but though there was no surprise evinced at '83's winning, there was some astonishment at '86's coming in last...
...emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is said to have been making converts in that college, visited the rooms of his prospective followers, and had just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries of "No popery," "Down with the Pope," and cheers for the "Church of England." The noise called forth fresh recruits from the adjoining colleges...
...their lives depends upon living, active union with other beings. This is the lesson that Faust, for example, learns through the keen-witted criticism of Mephistopheles. Experience, in short, teaches everybody finally that as an individual he is of no importance, and that his only worth lies in quiet, submissive union with all conscious beings, in so far as he has anything to do with them. But this is morality, and thus, if our mental growth is simply full enough, it does lead us in the end toward morality. Moral law is in harmony with the laws of mental growth...
...proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with no intention of being tied to any ladder upside-down, so I give you notice that I have a revolver in my pocket, with which I shall blow out the brains of the first man who molests me." And they...