Word: seem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most efficient members absent from duty next year, with the present vacancies that exist in several most important positions still unfilled, and the probability of one or more vacancies to come, and finally with a teaching force diminished and otherwise restricted on account of lack of funds, it would seem as though any prospect of a betterment of its present facilities must be very remote indeed...
...freshman year; and yet it has been rumored that it has been deemed best to make retrenchment in that direction. Now while Oxford has just stated afresh her doctrine that her professorships are established primarily for purposes of teaching and not for purposes of research, it would seem to be poor policy for Harvard to take measures for economy in her teaching force in preference to economizing in her expenditures in the cause of original research first. A truly liberal policy would call for attention first and foremost to the main objects for which the university was established, as long...
...number of safety touch-downs will probably be much increased this year; for it does not seem likely that the ball will remain in the middle of the field for any considerable length of time after the kick-off, now that the block-game is done away with, and manoeuvering near the goal lines of course gives one side a decided advantage. On the whole, the association is to be congratulated for their success in removing the most objectionable features in last year's games...
...Both methods [of electives] seem to work satisfactorily, and it is difficult to form a just estimate of their comparative value. But in one important feature our system appears to have a decided advantage. The course pursued at Harvard from its very nature compels the use of the marking system, ours dispenses with it, so far at least as to attempt no nice grading of scholarship by mark...
...from those same schoolboy college days and schoolboy views of which the Nation's correspondent speaks with such just disparagement. Such devices may have been necessary in the days when boys came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have any reason to complain of the effect upon scholarship...