Word: seem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Supposing, however, the course to be sufficiently smooth, - and, besides what has already been mentioned, we add good, healthy sea-air and the possibility of sea-bathing, - it would seem hard to find a better place for our regattas...
...other hand, the Senior and Junior Classes seem to be composing themselves to harder and more careful work than they have yet undertaken, and the result cannot but be a pleasant one both to themselves and their instructors...
...have heard much dissatisfaction expressed, lately, at the refusal of our foot-ball players to join Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, and Princeton in a convention for the purpose of forming an intercollegiate association and a fixed code of laws. It certainly does not seem natural for Harvard to keep aloof from anything of this kind, and while we think our players are perfectly right in not being willing to alter their rules (which are undoubtedly far superior to those of the other colleges), still we ask whether it would not have been much better to have sent delegates able to explain...
Neither the words "misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud...
...moribund condition of the association seems to have been chiefly due to the lethargy of last year's administration; and with the election of the present board of officers, the association seemed to take a new lease of life, and the evil day of dissolution was averted, for a time at least. The fact then came to light that of last year's Freshmen only thirty had become members; and these last really did not seem to enjoy any privileges from which the rest of the class were debarred...