Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There would seem to be no objection to assessing each student resident in Cambridge $1.00 a year towards the support of the infirmary. Any such student might at some time be glad to enjoy the benefits of the infirmary, and it would be the interest of all to see that its usefulness was not interfered with by lack of funds...
...considerably larger than that on the sophomore side. Ninety eight was supported in its cheering by firecrackers, tin pans, pistols, shotguns, and a brass band, while ninety-seven was aided by a small cannon which was planted near first base, and innumerable horns. But the noise did not seem to disturb the players on either side very much...
Tennis players must not overlook the fact that entries close this evening. As usual, many men seem to have postponed entering until the last moment, and they must be careful not to let even that slip by. The tournament is to be begun on Monday, so that the time for receiving entries can not be extended. There should be many more names in the blue book at Leavitt & Peirce's before today is over...
...those at the west end of the hall either to shiver as they ate, or else wear their hats and overcoats. It is an imposition on the students thus carelessly to subject them to such cold draughts as an east wind brings through so large an opening. It would seem as if some temporary covering might be furnished the inside o the window while the work was being carried on. If no shelter could have been rigged, whey did they not wait till the summer vacation, or at least till warm weather? I do not know how long the work...
...often dismissed in this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high is of course absurd...