Word: seem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hope that I do not show an excess of modesty in thus endeavoring to shield my fellow-students from the popular gaze during their meals. But matters seem to have been growing more and more complicated in the gallery since visitors were admitted there, and now the question...
...interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest in their work, those who have no interest and never make believe that they have, and finally the Mr. Digby who "runs up to the instructor after recitation." This gentleman now declares that the majority...
...elective body, holding their places for life. This body contained from twenty to thirty members. We are in the dark as to its powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive was an officer, called sometimes the Dean...
...members of these castes were called "men," and seem to have had no particular occupations. Many of them spent their time in travelling between Harvard and what must have been an adjoining city; others devoted themselves to "grinding," a term which would seem to imply the presence of some industry, but we find no other traces...
...scattered sheets of what were probably periodicals published by the men themselves. We learn from these that there existed among the men a continual discontent with the acts of the Legislature, which they speak of as the "Faculty." If this word is the same as the Latin facilis, as seems probable, the ironical application of the name becomes evident. This, too, would seem to imply quite an advanced state of intellectual culture among the inhabitants of Harvard...