Word: seem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...next June in spite of the financial failure of these spreads in recent years. For some reason or other, this part of the Class Day festivities has become decidedly unsuccessful, and the financial loss is almost as great as the total cost of the annual Junior dance. It would seem to be a bad policy to continue the custom when it apparently fails to interest a goodly proportion of the Senior class; but many men take advantage of the opportunity every year, and for their sakes the spread will be held again...
...basketball and the two-period rule, and an exception to the eligibility rules has been suggested which will allow men who are spending their fourth year in Cambridge in one of the graduate schools to take part in University athletics. Basketball is so poorly supported that it does not seem fair to have a team representing Harvard, which plays against colleges where the game is flourishing. The two-period rule, as shown in this morning's communication, does not really increase the scholarship of athletes, and it works injustice on men of good standing at the College office, who should...
...would seem distinctly undesirable to destroy the privilege of early graduation altogether, but we believe that it should be made considerably more difficult to get a degree in less than the ordinary time. If men were not allowed to anticipate courses or if the requirements for a three-year degree were increased, the unity of Harvard College would be decidedly strengthened...
...Freshman eight has shown a marked development with this week's work. The first crew has been able to keep a fairly consistent order with the result that the boat is moving along better, and the early crudeness is being dropped. Newton at stroke and Strong at 6 seem to have been changes for the better. In the rest of the squad, with the possible exception of the second Freshman, there have been such repeated changes that the men are as yet more or less of an unknown quantity...
...attempts in "And the Greatest of These" needs better technique than the author at present commands to give it the power of holding the reader which is necessary to atone for the frank unreality of the setting. "The Duplicity of Wilhelm" is funny or nothing; and it does not seem funny...