Word: seem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Such announcement of cuts seems to us an unmixed good, and it is only with unpleasant surprise that we learn of the Registrar's interference with its continuance. This is not the first occasion on which the present Registrar has interfered officiously, when not officially, with matters that seem without the sphere of his action, and has manifested a spirit towards students that may in future render the legitimate exercise of his functions less agreeable than would be desirable. We certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous...
...studied would not need then to cram, as they do now, in a manner as unsatisfactory to them as it can be to the Faculty. The only objection, as far as we have heard, to having the list of examinations published thus early, is that it would seem like an encouragement to cramming. It seems to us that the early publication of the list would have an exactly opposite effect, - that it would do much to prevent cramming. If students knew the order of their examinations in time, they would carefully review the subjects on which they were...
...room on Class Day, and give a spread, too, for that matter; but it has always been customary for the lower classmen to do all in their power to oblige Seniors on that day and to make it a pleasant one for them. Class Day, by its name, would seem to point out the impropriety, to say the least, of an entertainment of any kind not conducted by a Senior...
...ought not to expect to have more than one Class Day, and for a member of one of the lower classes to give a spread on that day, especially if it interferes in any way with a Senior's arrangements, would seem to be an infringement on the peculiar rights which the graduating class has by the courtesy of the other classes and of the College authorities. This courtesy has been so universal, that an exception appears very marked...
...seem like a poor birdling in a cage...