Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take part in the more elaborate programs which they are capable of offering and which real music lovers would delight to hear? . . ." The answer to this interrogation was forthcoming on the following day when...
...execution of an excellent order of things in the Dean's office.. It is to be hoped that new blood will increase the efficiency of the body which has functioned so ably in the past. That is often the case and quite normally so. The "ordinary circumstances" which seem to make brevity of tenure desirable in the office of assistant dean are not mathematically definable. The extraordinary has been clearly discernible in the work of Mr. Mayo, dean of the Sophomore class, and of Mr. Bacon, dean of the Junior and Senior classes. But as a working principle...
Still I had read it, and if the truth must be told, with amusement, finding it typically American, quaintly ungrammatical and sophomoric. Further it did not seem to be well disposed or given to amiable qualities. The conspicuous examples of the latter are too long to rewrite. However a few apt specimens of false fine writing occur in "famed," "one," "onetime" and "able." There are others as atrociously bad. Its public must be one that admires redundant simplicity...
...been said that in New York the Century is thought of as "just a train" while in Chicago it is an institution. If that be true, perhaps Conductor Frank V. Hendrix will seem even more of a personage than Conductor Kennedy, when he officiates at the Chicago end of the anniversary run with his colleagues, Conductor Frank A. Jefferey and John S. Lund.* Gruff as a Southern colonel and as proud of tradition, Conductor Hendrix lacks but a few days of Conductor Kennedy's seniority. Both joined the road in 1873 when Commodore Vanderbilt was its president. Both retire before...
...sanatorium, a high and chilly retreat, the perspective of life changes. With death for a background, massive and eccentric as the high Alps, the caperings of man seem puny by comparison. The idiotic decadence, the absurdly microscopic preoccupations of humanity are emphasized by their isolation...