Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author takes occasion to say that "since frequency of writing has more to do with ease of writing than anything else, I count newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences written as appears in our daily press...
...been shown by the CRIMSON news articles explanatory of the systems in operation at other colleges, there are a number which seem to have worked well and might meet with favor here. Whether any of these courses, prescribed or elective, counting or not giving credit for an A. B., are applicable, and whether the idea of a fixed course of indoor training is not dangerous in itself as discouraging open air exercise, are questions to be discussed at the conference this evening. It is to be hoped that they will meet with the careful consideration of many undergraduates, and that...
...their successes. The public recognition of this by the Athletic Committee in the gift of the trophies, will assure them that Harvard does not forget those who by their own efforts have added to the list of victories. Such recognition adds reality to general appreciation and makes that appreciation seem the more worth gaining...
...recent amendments to the articles of the H. D. A. seem to have been adopted wisely and after careful consideration. The third, and most important, which provides for two elections during the college year and the retaining of half the old board in office after each election, seems an especially good move. The great weakness of recent boards has been that, made up so largely of green men, they have, during a portion at least of their terms of office, been peculiarly open to the wishes and suggestions of the hired servant of the association. Any change, therefore, calculated...
...last of Mr. Copeland's lectures on Johnson and his friends was given yesterday on Richard Brinsley Sheridan. At first sight Sheridan may not seem to belong to the group, as he was younger, but he was really a member of the club...