Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class hockey teams are now practicing daily on the Holmes Field rink and at Spy Pond. Of the three upper classes, the Seniors seem to have the best outlook as four of last year's team and a member of the team of two years ago have returned. There is some promising material among the eighteen candidates, and with the improvement that is likely to take place this week, a strong team should be developed...
...outcome of future races. For my part I believe that, barring accidents, the best crew will win in either case, and that the best crew for three miles is also the best crew for four miles, even though, at first glance, the experience of the past two years may seem to indicate otherwise. EDWARD C. STORROW...
...position of chorister would also seem to be almost entirely honorary in its nature, a distinction to be conferred by the Class...
...most deserving of the speaking parts would seem to be those whose literary qualifications, so to speak, entitle them to their offices. In other words, the necessary qualifications would not seem to turn on the matter of individual ability, since these men will be judged on Class Day by their merits alone. The offices of poet and orator need for special explanation. The odist writes words to the metre of "Fair Harvard" and these words are sung to that tune at the close of the Class Day exercises. The ivy oration requires in the writer a fine vein of humor...
Five years ago relations with Yale were resumed, and five match games have been played with them. The previous ten years had been disastrous to Harvard football. There were four consecutive defeats by Yale, four consecutive defeats by Princeton, three consecutive defeats by Pennsylvania. This did not seem a natural outcome of existing conditions as the situation seemed to present every element of success for Harvard--plenty of opportunity, plenty of coaches, plenty of candidates and plenty of enthusiasm, besides the favorable attitude of the University authorities...