Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact that but few seniors have yet taken the trouble to sit for their class pictures. While it is doubtless true that class spirit here at Harvard is gradually dying out and is already nothing like as strong as it is in most other American colleges, it does seem that in this case, where no expense is incurred, even those men who do not care anything for a complete class album, might put themselves out a bit for the sake of those...
...last part of this statement may safely be admitted. As to the rest, it would seem to be rather an extreme view of the situation. The engravings must by the terms of the grant remain in Boston until next year: at that time, if Harvard asks for the return of what she has loaned, the "idea of the trustees" will be matter of entire indifference. The writer in the Tribune seems to fear that Harvard will make no such request because some of the trustees of the museum in Boston are also among the "Harvard authorities." Such a fear, however...
...high-stand men, the other two being arranged on a purely alphabetical basis. While the method just adopted is somewhat of an experiment, and may in its turn be modified or discarded, the principle on which it is based - the recognition of scholarship to the fullest possible degree - would seem to point to its permanent adoption for the freshman, and its ultimate extension to the sophomore class...
...clubs cooperate and give a concert together. The Pennsylvania men propose that in the event of such a concert being given the Harvard club shall go down to Philadelphia later in the year and give a similar concert there. Neither the leader nor the president of the Harvard club seem to think that the scheme will be likely to be carried out as it would hardly be possible for the club to go to Philadelphia...
Baseball too would probably suffer by the change, though perhaps not to such an extent. The games could hardly seem the same, for, as almost every one noticed during the football season, Soldiers Field lacks all the charm which Holmes Field gains from its nearness to the college buildings...