Word: seem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be glad to join the society if they knew something more certain about it, but while they feel that no redistribution of courts is probable this season, although the association is said to have received full control of the grounds on Jarvis and Holmes, the investment does not seem a profitable one. Would it not be wise for some one of authority to let us know what the committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts...
...reception given by Mrs. De Sorosis. Although the variety of costume worn on that occasion made his double-breasted jacket less conspicuous than it would have been at most evening entertainments of a like character, still he began to feel that Boston was different from Saug Centre. His boots seemed larger than they had ever been before, his Sunday purple and fine linen seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston was the "Hub," and he had only been living...
...utterly unnatural; necessarily so, perhaps, but that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors...
...fear, to a considerable extent well-founded. But then, Yale universally keeps so close a watch on her various athletic interests, and is so mindful of every move taken, that the varying recurrences of exultation and fear, that one continually observes in her college papers, seem very natural and proper. Self-confidence, when well based, is a very excellent thing. One thing is certain, that Yale can never be accused of false humility...
...rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the base-ball arena," comments the Princetonian. "Both Harvard and Princeton have shown themselves strong at the bat. The Dartmouth nine, we learn, is batting poorly, and Amherst has done nothing at all as yet, and does not seem over-confident. Brown boasts of having discovered another 'phenomena,' and quite raves over her 'left-handed battery.' Her nine plays in the first three of the championship games, meeting Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale, between the sixth and tenth...