Word: seem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football was taken recently when an advisory committee, consisting of three Yale graduates, Vance McCormick '93, S. B. Thorne '96 and J. R. Kilpatrick '11, was chosen, with power to add to its numbers, to consider the football situation and to make to the Athletic Association such recommendations as seem desirable. From present indications it appears likely that a coaching system similar to the one now in vogue at Princeton and Harvard will be adopted at Yale. There is always difficulty in finding a man fitted for such a responsible position, and judging from Princeton's experience last year...
...benefit of many who seem uncertain as to the exact purpose, method of organization, qualifications and requirements for joining the battalion, the committee announces the following tentative plan. However, the arrangements have not been definitely settled nor approved by the authorities...
...have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part in the hard work of the world. The chances that we shall be called upon to defend our national existence seem to me very small--though that is no reason for neglecting them. But we are called upon, and must be prepared, to do our part in "enforcing peace" in the world. And we have been already called upon--to our shame--to speak up for the principles we have professed...
...life is becoming more frivolous? On the contrary, it means that it has a craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that...
This service is exclusively for Freshmen and is a custom of many years' standing. Since the erection of the Freshman dormitories it has been of far greater importance; for, on account of the remote situation of their dormitories, 1919 men do not seem to realize that they are an essential part of the University, and accordingly should identify themselves with those interests which are maintained for the benefit of the entire University...