Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bonds of street railways and also small amounts of the bonds of the counties of western states. As my eye runs down the list of securities of Cornell University I find a record of county bonds in several western states, as well as railroad bonds; but county bonds seem to predominate. Turning to a college of quite a different position and history, Washington and Lee, in Virginia, I find that, out of $600,000, $234,000 are invested in securities of the state of Virginia; that town and county bonds are represented by a few thousand dollars; and that railroads...
...brought to the notice of the outside public. Few who are not connected with the college have any opportunity, as matters now stand, of rightly appreciating the different influences which are at work upon the undergraduate mind, or of estimating their effects. The interests of the student not unnaturally seem to be confined to the various forms of athletic or social activity, with now the possible exception of debating, which is often supposed to be stimulated only by the prospect of contests with Yale...
...Harvard men were not pushed so hard as on Wednesday. But there is a manifest improvement in the work of the nine, and especially in the work of the infield. The men play with more snap than they did at the beginning of the week, and they seem to realize the responsibility which rests upon them...
...between Harvard and Yale on the subject of a football game next fall is today made public. The Yale letter, written in a spirit of firm, manly independence, is not dictatorial in tone, nor does it demand that Harvard shall humble herself, as the press of the country would seem to make us think...
...without great difficulty and at the first trial. Hill's time of 5m. 12 3/5s. in the bicycle race is several seconds better than the former record. Not less remarkable was Hollister's half mile in 1m. 58 1/5s. Hollister won with the greatest possible ease and did not seem to be at all done up at the finish, so that there is no telling what time he might have made under better conditions...