Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to start merely another eating place which will not fulfill an absolute need. As yet no attempt has been made to discover the sentiment of upperclassmen and graduate students except through the Union club table offer. The reception of this offer for several reasons, does not seem a true indication of the feeling of upperclassmen toward a University dining hall. The duty of ascertaining this opinion is patently one for the only official undergraduate governing body,--the Student Council. Three hundred petitioners from among the three thousand or more students in the upper classes of Harvard College...
...live up fully to the spirit of the agreement. As in the case of the Hopkins proposals, opponents of the plan objected to the two team suggestion on the grounds that every college would make it a point to keep its beat team at home, this argument does not seem valid. We must admit practical objections but we can not include under this head the failure of a college to fulfill in a gentlemanly fashion its share of a mutual agreement. Harvard should expect her graduates as should also Yale to follow their respective athletic heads in a guiding policy...
...suspect this book will seem a trifle old-fashioned to many people. Towards the end of each essay there is a tendency towards gentle moralizing; pervading them is a keen contagious love of nature and of simple things. For most readers it should furnish an excellent after Divisionals tonic...
...inevitable comparison to Pluck and Luck," "Of All Things" and "Love Conquers All" staring it in the face, Mr. Benchley's latest collection of scientific discussions, little home-talks and slightly drunken essays is perilously close to having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud guffaw. Continuing...
Culled as they are from the pages of Life, the several episodes from the Life Polar Expedition are fairly familiar and one may possibly be excused if upon second perusal the antics of Lieutenant Commander Marc Connelly, Ensign Thermaline and Bobby seem a trifle shopworn. To the uninitiated, may they bring the same joy they delivered to others in the days of their youth...