Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...money required to meet them. As the matter now stands, we cannot play with outside clubs on either their grounds or ours, nor can we play often with other colleges because of the distance, etc.; and as there are no amateur clubs in our immediate neighborhood, it would seem almost inevitable that our nine, of which we have justly been so proud, should fall rapidly from its high position, all for want of practice. There can be no doubt that the real interests of the nine demand this step, and the interests of the nine lie very close...
...according to the importance of the subject given, the student himself would gain fully as great a benefit as he does now, and his auditors, in most cases at least, a much greater. If, in connection with this, the instructor would give lectures now and then on matters that seem to him of special importance or of special difficulty, and if he would at the same time expect the students to be prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point...
...destined port, nor seem to be at play...
...MEETING of the Harvard Club of San Francisco was recently held in that city, and its affairs seem to be in a prosperous condition. The dinner was well attended, considering the distances men have to travel in California. There were present about twenty or twenty-five graduates and former members of the College. Several members of the class of '77 graced the dinner with their presence, and enthusiastic speeches were made by graduates of longer standing. Mr. Fried-lander, formerly of the class of '79, was the youngest gentleman at the dinner...
...first academies to change her method of instruction in Latin and Greek so as to fit students for the new method of examination; and thus far the change has proved satisfactory. While Exeter may not be a "special feeder" for Harvard, she certainly does not seem to consider the requirements for admission excessive or impracticable...