Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Kaiser Bill still speaks his will...
...Chinee they still drink...
...sympathy which these institutions at once expressed and encouraged. The case is very much the same with the exercises in question. Can any ceremony be more beautiful than a merry physical rivalry, such as that about the tree, in which success is the cause of merriment, and failure of still greater merriment? Is it not a most appropriate means of taking men out of themselves, and enlivening and strengthening the sympathy between those, now about to part, who have striven together for four years in friendly but earnest emulation...
...seems appropriate to remind the present Seniors of their responsibility in the matter of voluntary recitations. Voluntary recitations must be regarded as still on trial, as they have not yet received the formal and permanent sanction of the authorities, and when it is remembered that this the second year of the trial will be held peculiarly decisive, it becomes the obvious duty of Seniors to avail themselves but sparingly of the privilege of cutting. Like the orator who spoke not to his audience but to posterity, the Seniors should feel the gravity of their position. It rests in great part...
...Still in the attic the same little looking-glass answers back the good-morning smile of the grisette, the same window is open for her last good-night to the blinking stars, and the same picture - a print of Washington that looks like a detected eavesdropper - stares out of its ghastly frame. But it is not the same thoughtless little grisette, although at first you might pardonably mistake her for our old friend. She has the same fresh face and piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor...