Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers of the senior class, the class itself must be depended upon to do its share. In the case of the class song, the senior class has certainly been very negligent. The rehearsals have not been attended as they should have been, and many of the class do not seem to know the song. As it is absolutely necessary for the success of the exercises around the tree that the song should be learned by the class, the chorister is especially anxious that the last two rehearsals be largely attended. An extra rehearsal will be held at two o'clock...
...when we arrived at our destination there was the same steamer waiting to receive us and our luggage and take us up to our quarters. It is from this steamer that we receive our first impressions of the course, and as the steamer goes very slowly the four miles seem to mount up to double that number in the imaginations of some. Everything was looking well at the quarters on our arrival, and after we had carefully taken the boats and oars from the steamer and deposited them in the boathouse, we proceeded to take possession of our rooms...
...certain number of ancient customs yet in vogue here at Harvard-nobody knows just why-which it would be well to do away with as soon as possible; and among these "antiques" there is none perhaps which needs attention more than the ringing of the "rising bell." There seems to be absolutely no reason why it should be rung day by day, except the fact that it has been rung each morning from time immemorial, while there are many reasons for silencing its loud-sounding tongue until chapel time. It is first not a rising bell for most...
...higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. When institutions of learning cut themselves off from the sympathy and support of large numbers of men whose lives are intellectual, by refusing to recognize as liberal arts and disciplinary studies languages, literatures and sciences, which seem to these men as important as any which the institutions cultivate, they inflict a gratuitous injury both on themselves and on the country which they should serve. Their refusal to listen to parents and teachers who ask that the avenues of approach to them may be increased in number...
...least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly and happy sophomores, who seem not at all abashed by the publicity of the event. At about ten o'clock one evening last week the Columbia sophomores, assisted by the juniors, some three hundred in all, assembled in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Each man was arrayed in a uniform costume of a long white gown...