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Word: seemed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chances seem to favor New York University which has won the meet for the past several years. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be given in the six regular events, and cups will be given to the winners of the first three places in the individual all-round championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GYMNASTICS AT PRINCETON | 3/27/1908 | See Source »

...They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIPLING ON WEALTH | 3/24/1908 | See Source »

...itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it seem reasonable that a man who can keep off probation the year round, taking part in two sports, could as easily compete in three? Because sure as water rises to its own level man takes his normal exercise, and the gratifying result of this rule is only to divert a certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/16/1908 | See Source »

...make American representation at the Games a pronounced success by a contribution of $500 to the Committee to be used in defraying the expenses of the team. The I. C. A. A. A. A. subscribed $1000 on February 29, and at present the chances of financing the trip successfully seem excellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trials for Olympic Games on June 6 | 3/13/1908 | See Source »

...offer a suggestion to the managers of the Union. There the price of board is considerably higher than. in most of the Cambridge eating places; and for that reason we expect to find the food much better. Of the quality offered we have little to complain, but it does seem that by a little judicious management the meals might be served fresher and hotter. There are certain articles of food quantities to be served when called for, as is apparently done in some cases at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNION RESTAURANT. | 3/11/1908 | See Source »

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