Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer seems utterly unable to perceive what is not put directly before his eyes. That a general can contain a particular truth does not seem to have yet entered his head. "Abstinence in the economic sense is never thought of by Christ." And why? "Because it is plain that self sacrifice was considered admirable only in relation to a particular ideal, viz.: "Love of God and one's neighbor." Is then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley...
...when you hear this particular complaint, "Oh that is the old one of 'keep off the grass!' " So it is. But why do we utter again the time-worn and useless cry? Truly, only because we think it has neither of these two qualities. Time-worn it may seem to some, however, but thereby only the more to be reverenced; but time-worn-out never. Useless? Not as long as we are addressing men who reflect, and students who have a taste for beauty and order. Hence, we plead for the protection of the grass; and now especially because upon...
...idea in Captain Ward's words is true of the work of any 'Varsity team, That is, college athletics have been carried to such a point that unless continuous hard and intelligent work be kept in each branch day after day no good results are obtained. It does not seem very bad to hold off for two weeks in the fall before beginning to train for the foot-ball season. Yet any one who has, knows to his cost how far behind the others he is when he comes into training work. How short of wind he is! How tired...
...does not seem very bad to keep away from the rowing machines till after the semi-annual examinations, and when an old hand takes the oars then he does not feel himself very far behind the others. But the next June he loses the race and then "can't see why Yale should have got ahead...
...feather - weight sparring was decided Saturday. A. C. Coolidge, '87, and E. W. Grew, '89. were drawn for this meeting. The first round opened smartly, although more than half of the blows fell short and those that did reach the mark had little strength in them. Grew did not seem to have command of the situation and ducked in a very tempting manner. Coolidge took advantage of this and landed several upper-cuts, without, however, swinging his body into them...