Word: seem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second remedy a reduction in the needless expenses. There is absolutely not reason why a man who makes a team should consider it his prerogative to be fed, nursed, clothed and amused at the expense of the Athletic Association. Yet such is the case. Most members of teams seem to consider that the College owes them a debt, which must be paid off in this manner. The situation has been described as analogous to that of a certain type of lawyer, who, so soon as he has an important case, considers it as an opportunity for making a tour...
...seem good policy to keep a team on which much depends in a pleasing frame of mind by a little pampering now and then, but when a man who sees things from the inside makes the statement that a 33 per cent. reduction in expenditures is possible, some attempt should be made to act in accordance...
...inclusion would provide a substantial inducement to purchasers. A similar result would follow from the inclusion of other sports. This reasoning has been tested in connection with track meets: the Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association in his report for 1906-07 says, "The track events did not seem to draw, when standing on their own feet, the income they did when they were thrown in as part of the inducement to buy the regular H. A. A. season ticket." An indirect effect of the extension would undoubtedly be an increased attendance at the minor sport contests, a result much...
...Honor versus Proctors," Mr. Kenneth R. Macgowan '11 severely condemns placing proctors in charge of examinations, because that system seems to him humiliating, undemocratic, and unsuccessful. Few will, I think, agree with him. In my opinion, at any rate, cheating in examinations is so rare as to be almost negligible. Nor ought there to be a sense of humiliation because of the presence of a proctor; he is there to protect the honest against the unfair competition of the possibly dishonest. To call that "espionage" is, it seems to me, improper; as well take offence at the mildly inquiring...