Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five sophomores who were recently suspended for hazing. Other members of the class, nine or ten in number, who absented themselves rather than fulfil the obligations required of them, are now petitioning for permission to again join the class. These applications the faculty have under consideration. Every thing is quiet and orderly at the college...
...applying the brakes, they succeeded in stopping the engine, but not till it had approached to within four feet of the car. In the mean time the horses had continued unmanageable, and finally the leaders broke away and ran. Other horses were sent from the stables, and, after quiet had been restored, the car proceeded...
...attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...
...Virginia paper says that William and Mary College at Williamsburg has entirely gone down. Last year there was only one student, this year none. The president has a splendid residence just out of town, and the buildings are quiet and lonely looking and seem to hide within their walls much of wisdom, but this is all that is left of the once proud seat of learning...
...neared the upper drift, I could not keep down a growing feeling of uneasiness. I made Elsie keep quiet under pretence of listening to a noise from the top; and when we rose to the level of the black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted...