Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...college life, are certainly for many Freshmen a most effective bridge over the morally perilous first months. They supply a keen motive for effort, persistence and self-restraint. Study, unfortunately, does not in most cases so rouse the ambition and sense of responsibility. The reward is apt to seem too remote. The student has the happy feeling that college of itself, without effort, will make a man distinguished. The saving power of effort, therefore, is not experienced and character is left to take its chances...
...candidates for the Weld Freshman crew have been cut down from 75 in number to about 50. Next week the men will be graded into eights preparatory to going on the river. The men are as a rule larger than last year's candidates, but they seem to lack life in their work. Their chief faults are a weak leg drive and slow body recovery. The following men have been retained and will report at the Gymnasium at 5 o'clock on Monday: E. B. Roberts, Bent, Wright, Maltby, Pumpelly, George, Adams, Hartwell, Greenough, Du Bois, Whitwell, Graydon, Derby...
...creeps up; in the one case the liberal education of the school is replaced by professional education; in the other case the liberal education is replaced by liberal play. If one of the two tendencies were working alone, its imminent danger would be felt at once, but as they seem to cooperate, the one from the bottom, the other from the top, each hides for the moment the defects of the other...
...balance sheet showed a profit it would seem only logical that such a state of things should reflect itself in a judicious decrease in the prices of food and not in an increase in employees' salaries. But to increase salaries, when the association is not making its expenses, is certainly so radical a departure from the fundamental principles of the society as to deserve at least a word of public criticism. Member...
...Harvard hockey team won its second victory over Brown yesterday afternoon on the rink at Soldiers Field. The teams were more evenly matched than the score of 7 to 1 would seem to show, for it was not until the end of the second half that the Harvard men, by their superior lasting qualities and their excellent team play, were able to gain any considerable advantage over their opponents. The playing was by far the fastest yet seen on the rink and as a result there were several minor accidents. In the first half, with a strong wind against them...