Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field. And it is to these men and to one's personal inclinations that the average Freshman will look for guidance. No bills are being peddled, no fields exploited; the chief objective of these articles is to illuminate obscure points and to explain matters which to the uninitiated may seem technical and menacing. If the present articles succeed in partly diffusing these clouds which usually hover about Freshman predilections they will not have failed in their...
...blind man makes," asserted Dan. "A man who buys a paper from me every day is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and he's always ready with a bit of cheerful conversation. He's taken me to dinner at the Colonial Club too, and he says that when things seem to be a bit black he thinks of the tough time I've had and realizes that it's not as bad as it might...
Proposals for "reforming" intercollegiate football may seem to some much like projects for perpetual motion; but the plan of such a man as President Hopkins of Dartmouth, a strong friend of athletics and sometime athletic graduate manager at Hanover, cannot but receive respectful attention. . . His suggestion that a conference of colleges and universities be called to consider football "reform," deserves to be acted on. New York Times...
...these days when the word Imperialism first begins to make its appearance in criticisms of the foreign policies of the United States, when the interest of the whole nation is focused on the Nicaraguan situation, on the Tacna-Anca problem, and on Mexico, and when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture...
...University eleven. With two teams of equal strength instead of one there will no longer be any "varsity" for the papers to write about and the public to talk about incessantly for two months every autumn. It will end the Saturday emigrations of the undergraduate body. Furthermore it would seem a logical deduction that two teams playing the same intercollegiate schedule would develop an intramural rivalry which might even outweigh the interest incidental to the outside games...