Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University Song as well as a University Club? For there seems to be a strange lack of a college song familiar to all of us. All our gatherings seem incomplete without one. We know how quickly the sympathies of an assembly are awakened by the stimulus of a good chorus. It has the same virtue as a college yell in that each man contributes his part to the common expression, and is conscious of his participation; in fact, the college song is the proper complement of the college cheer...
...spite of the evident risk of repetition we wish to emphasize what seem to be features essential to a successful University Club. As its object is to produce greater unity of feeling and action, it must be made attractive to all men in College, no matter what their circumstances. Hence it must combine two qualities-powerful attractions, and very low dues. The building must supply some conveniences which even wealthy members of other clubs will find a use for, and the charge must be too light to deter any man from joining...
...University Club project has been thoroughly discussed by most of the undergraduates and we seem to feel strongly that it would be the most effective means of centralizing our rapidly growing social interests. If the graduates realized this feeling, without doubt they would give us the club. As the mass meeting to be held next Tuesday night will be regarded by them as an expression of our interest in the plan, every undergraduate should help by his presence, to make the meeting a success...
...committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual elector who who could vote between lectures without sacrifice of time. This must still seem far preferable to the antiquated method of spending an evening, and perhaps a good part of the night in a meeting where speeches must of necessity be forbidden and where most of the time is taken up by the monotonous waits for the tellers to count the ballots...
Having a confidence in his own judgment which might seem to some almost obstinacy, he had no pride of opinion whatever, and no one could be more tolerant of others' views, or more ready to receive suggestions and evidence. Knowing well the nature of all investigation, his views were always in a plastic state. Whatever conclusions he reached were only working hypotheses to be altered by the next discovery. He had also an infinite patience with even the errors of those who wished to learn, and great acumen in discovering the exact misconception that caused the error. His style...