Word: seem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From this analysis of the standards by which the progress of nations is measured it will appear that the western nations are not as progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...
...attempting to make our diet hygienic we may seem to have no guide. We have, however, a perfect guide in the promptings of a normal appetite. If thorough insalivation and mastication are practiced, the appetite will tolerate only the exact amount of the different foods needed to renew the various parts of the body and to furnish energy...
...quarter mile, Dodge in the sprints, Turner in the mile, Stone and King in the two mile, Jordan and Ford in the broad jump and Gring in the pole vault, are the men on whom chief reliance must be placed. Only in the mile and two mile does there seem to be much strength among the candidates who failed to make the team last year. The hurdles, the half mile, the high jump and the weight events are particularly weak...
There is a serious lack of good material in the hurdles. O. F. Rogers '08, who has done 16 4-5s. in the high and 26 4-5s. in the low hurdles, is doing encouraging work. W. M. Rand '09 and I. B. Brandreth '09 seem to be promising candidates. J. B. Doyle '07 has not improved as was expected, and will probably try some other event...
...which we may expect in subsequent numbers. Conceivable as it is that at the beginning of the year, good material should be hard to obtain, this excuse scarcely serves to explain away the general mediocrity of the contents of the number. The illustrations, almost without exception, are good and seem to indicate sufficient care in execution, particularly the frontispiece, "Dea ex Machina", the center-page, "What will it bring forth", and the head-piece to "By the Way", all excellent work. "By the Way" itself, however, offers serious ground for the suggestion, already often made, that this column be definitely...