Word: seem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reports of the efforts being made by the men in training for the approaching inter-collegiate sports are very gratifying, and seem to indicate yet again the continually increasing interest of the university in general athletics. Such an interest is in every way commendable, and its marked appearance at this college is, we think, indicative of a growing tendency among college men in general to devote themselves more than ever before to a cultivation of systematic physical growth and of gymnastic exercises. In the present case, however, the chief thing is to be assured that the present industry in training...
...players of this fascinating game often leads them. That, in the very midst of the most exciting match games with different colleges, played on Jarvis or Holmes, tennis courts should be in active operation in the near vicinity, utterly regardless of the patriotic contest going on so near, does seem remarkable, to say the least. The bobbing of a tennis ball is a delightful sight-in its proper time and place; but should it not be absent on such occasions as these we have mentioned...
Wright & Ditson have been sending their spring and summer catalogue to different members of the college. The list embraces everything used by athletes, and the prices seem very reasonable...
...expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs seem to have been aggravated cases. The past year has been especially marked by the occurrence of similar ones, even to such an extent that some have called the phenomenon an epidemic. The public press has until lately been almost unanimous though often too severe in its condemnation of the practice. College...
...action of the plaintiff in the case of Strout versus the seven Bowdoin students, now on trial before the Supreme Court of Maine, seems perfectly justifiable and commendable. On the 25th of October last young Strout stood at the window of his room on the second floor of Appleton Hall. A piece of coal weighing one pound was thrown through the glass, striking him in the eye, causing a serious wound. A few minutes after the defendants entered the room on a hazing expedition, for the purpose of seizing some cider supposed to be in the possession of the freshman...