Word: seemed
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...total number of points scored by these men last year is 52 for Harvard and 22 3-4 for Yale. The prospect for Yale, however, is much better than this would seem to indicate, for two old point-winners, who did nothing last year will probably score next spring. These are W. M. Fincke '01S. in the hurdles and R. Sheldon '02S. in the weights. Besides this, it is safe to predict that under Trainer Murphy's direction there will be a very considerable development of new material. It is a significant fact that of the six men that Murphy...
...show what percentage of the students who graduated with distinction each category contains, and this table will be found to be one of the most interesting of the series. It proves conclusively that many of the strongest students of the College abandon the Classics and mathematics for studies which seem to them more likely to be serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective system in Harvard College; but they support the belief that as a body the students use the system...
...American colleges seem to be gradually learning how to conduct amateur sports in a reputable manner. Harvard University has had its full share of difficulties during the past thirty years; but it has at last found its way to a satisfactory constitution for a committee to regulate athletic sports. This committee has been imitated in other institutions; and its work has gradually found acceptance among both the undergraduates and the graduates of Harvard University, and among the students and graduates of other institutions. Thus the rules governing eligibility which were worked out by the Harvard committee have proved acceptable...
...Tellhelm, from whom she has heard nothing for a long time, and the ring in the landlord's possession becomes the means of informing her of Tellhelm's whereabouts. She at once sends for the Major and, in spite of the disgrace and poverty which threaten him and which seem to his sense of honor permanent barriers to their union, she insists that he accept her hand. the Major, whose pride had refused all aid offered by his generous friend Paul Werner, refuses to consider himself or Minna bound by a promise given under different circumstances. Minna's quick...
...Senior class election today, the members of the class of 1901 will vote on the question of wearing caps and gowns between the spring recess and Commencement. Let me state briefly what seem to me to be the chief points to be considered in deciding this question...