Word: stealth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with a gentle and soul-soothing stealth...
...such a cosmopolitan and consequently migratory nature, that the beginning of a vacation causes scarcely a perceptible stir. The recitation-rooms become suddenly deserted, a few loads of trunks leave town, and a body of men, equal to a good-sized Western village, have departed with the stealth of an Arab encampment. An ubiquitous individual of the spirit-world could hardly be more interestingly employed than in following the men to their different homes and amusements, and observing what becomes of them, - we had almost said what they become; for a college man, marked and catalogued according to college standards...
...Society. A flag was discovered one morning floating from the Chapel spire, bearing the emblems of the "Bones," and the significant words, "Death to." This was afterwards secured by a Sophomore as a "memorabil," and lodged in the room of a Senior, from which place it was removed by stealth. Suspicion pointed at the "Scroll and Keys," and a arrant was obtained to search their rooms for the stolen property. As the police, however, declined to allow any outsider to accompany them in their search, the prosecution was withdrawn. The Senior societies at Yale appear to afford grounds for much...
...societies. We shall find, however, that our plain honest character yields the true weight which turns the scale of unworthiness: he is never "tried in the balance and found wanting"; he has attained the philosophic knowledge that contentment is great gain, and that while doing "good by stealth, and blushing to find it fame" he has run not as one that "beateth the air," but has steadily attained the goal set before him for his after career in life...