Word: seem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard man will take this book seriously. It deals solely with the doings of a few extremists." The reader is likely to agree with him. In making this statement he has deserved better of the University than some fellow-authors who express no qualification in their writing. It would seem better still if, recognizing that his book was not fairly representative of Harvard life, he had carried his self-denial to the point of leaving the word "Harvard" out of his title...
...university in the sense that no other has always such evident and crying needs." In considering the influence on the University in developing the manhood of the students, Professor Hart calls attention to the fact that never has there been so little necessity for severe discipline, as today. "Students seem on the whole to accept the responsibility of manhood, and that a high standard of life appeals to Harvard students is shown by the great influence of Professor Norton during a quarter of a century. . . . . The moral quality of the Harvard man is sound and hopeful...
...distinct and technical the training of a real forester must be very few people seem to understand. Even your editorial betrays a common misconception by speaking of the "esthetic side of the profession." A forester may have an esthetic side just as a lumberman may, but forestry itself is no more concerned with esthetic questions than is the lumber business. In fact in the east forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing...
...does not seem necessary to add to Professor Hart's defense of the wisdom of the Co-operative Society in voting a salary to the President at the last annual meeting; but it is worth while to point out that the recent opposition to that vote only emphasizes anew the instability of the present organization...
...present Directors seem to take the embarrassing attitude that a criticism of their plan is a criticism of themselves and the President of the Society rules that in a matter of such great concern to the future of the Society, any alternative plan is "out of order." Hence the members of the Society have not the opportunity of knowing officially the reasons which actuated one member of the Board of Directors in withholding his assent from the plan. There is really no difference of interest between the directors and the members: we all wish the same thing, the perpetuation...