Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...part be defrayed by the proceeds of match games. But it is different with the crew, for, though conducted on the most economical plan, a crew costs upwards of two thousand dollars, and all of this must be raised by subscriptions from freshmen alone. Two thousand dollars may seem at first though too large an amount of money to spend for such a purpose, but, if any man will remember that a shell and oars cost six hundred dollars, board at training table twelve dollars a week per man, expenses of three weeks training at New London several hundred dollars...
...most famous rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that the heroes they committed seem almost justified. Six thousand nobles and gentry fell by the guillotine, and yet when one considers the multitudes that these nobles had been starving to death by taxation for a thousand years, the clemency that the masses showed in their hour of triumph and vengeance seems almost wonderful...
...wish to call attention to an abuse which may seem trifling, but which nevertheless causes infinite annoyance. We refer to the practice of shuffling feet, slamming note books, coughing, and making other disagreeable noises which has lately been so freely indulged in towards the close of recitations. The hour is not over till the bell rings. The last few minutes of the hour sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last...
...coming week all the candidates will be formed into one large squad which will take light exercise in the gymnasium every day, and a short run. At the end of the week a second squad will be picked from the first, and will include those men who seem to take the greatest interest and do the hardest work. This last squad will be taught the principles of the game and every effort will be made to show the men how to play real football. Still a third squad will be formed of last fall's 'varsity players...
...present system. Mr. Dana considers that "the main provisions requiring an official caucus ballot, secrecy in voting, publishing the contents of the ballot a considerable time before the caucus, and furnishing a convenient means of getting names printed on the ballot with as little trouble as possible, certainly seem to promise very well." He points out that another step must still be taken-organization among different caucuses before the nominating convention. He closes with a warning that we should not be "in too much of a hurry to adopt any of the proposed legal schemes by legal enactment," for they...