Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...object of pity, more good would be wrought than the best framed pledges and societies could hope for." It is notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life in as far as relates to pleasures of the cup. But intemperance, we rest assured, has always been as emphatically condemned by the college community as could be desired by the most ardent prohibitionist. That there has of late years been an observable tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public...
...price. But this attempt to adapt the hall to the needs of the large number - the majority it is believed - of students, who ask for simple, wholesome fare at low rates, can only meet with success if responded to with liberality. It is necessarily merely an experiment for the rest of this year; and if, by the neglect of those for whose benefit it was undertaken, it should fail, its failure would carry with it the failure of the association, and the probable abandonment of the whole organization. For the sake, therefore, of preserving this institution, whose full value...
...curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this furnace makes it almost equal to a summer vacation and shows conclusively that Plato's statement was made without regard to furnaces. There are registers in four of the rooms...
...catechised about what he knew, and as that is a question readily answered only by members of a graduating class, he innocently admitted that he did not know what he did know or what he did not know. Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield were in despair, but retired happily to rest when Mr. Butterfield, aided by the larger experience of the Rev. C. Alexander Dingley, came to the conclusion that Benjamin could easily enter the Law School, and Mrs. Butterfield was appeased by the statement of the Rev. C. Alexander Dingley that he would, no doubt, soon be able to enter...
...World" continues at the Boston Theatre for the rest of the season. In our opinion, it is the best spectacular play ever seen in Boston, from the fact that it possesses what none of the others do, a plot. In addition to this, the machinery and mechanical effects are gorgeous and wonderful, the whole making a performance well worth a visit...