Word: seem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...
...Friday I learned with surprise from your columns of the action of the Sophomore class in regard to wearing class buttons. The Sophomores seem not to have outgrown the state where they want every toy they see their friends playing with. The Senior class buttons, adopted first by the class of 1905, will lose half their value and their full significance, when adopted by other classes. There might be some reason for Juniors to adopt class buttons, after the Seniors begin to wear their caps and gowns on May 1, but for Sophomores it seems absurd. JUNIOR...
...third game of the interclass hockey series will be played between the Juniors and the Sophomores this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the Stadium. The teams seem to be very evenly matched; the Juniors having the better individual players, and the Sophomores having developed better team play...
...people listened to the public press, said Mr. McCall, it would seem that the importance of a college is for athletics, and incidentally, at most, for education. True, there is nothing spectacular in scholarship; but nothing depends more upon individual effort. Athletics ought not to be denounced; athletics are a good thing if indulged in by everybody, and they develop courage; but there is no question of the vast superiority of intellectual work...
Will you permit me to call attention in your columns to the carelessness of some students in not returning the property of others which comes by chance into their possession? The loss of what may seem to them a thing of little consequence may often mean great inconvenience to the owner, entirely incommensurate with the apparent material value of the article, or with the slight trouble of restoring...