Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant quarters to a great number of men. It is but a few years since the building was altered to its present condition owing to doubts as to the strength of its walls, and as a result it stands empty and useless for weeks at a time. Now it seems as if the old hall could be again made useful by building interior partition walls of brick so as to strengthen and bind the structure together; and by dividing it off into suites of rooms like those in Holworthy, with a study in front and two bed-rooms...
...reported that a certain college has decided to make its students pay for any desks they may hereafter disfigure by cutting. This puts a summary end in one institution to what has been hitherto an almost universal custom. Somehow, these rude signs seem to be links between the students of different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point...
...large number of theories have been advanced as to the reason of these remarkable sunsets. The exact cause will probably never be known, but it is interesting to hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The usual spirit of the legal profession-that of taking advantage of circumstances without regard to justice-is developing very early in the present members of the Law School. For it seems very unjust toward the undergraduate classes for that department of the university to abstain from the races on the Charles until there is an accumulation of old and excellent oarsmen from which to form a crew. Moreover I can not help thinking that this will have a bad effect generally on the interest in rowing taken by undergraduates. The one cause of enthusiasm...
...bringing about a better mutual understanding on both sides. In our issue of the morning preceding the recent conference we took occasion to criticise some portions of President Eliot's annual report treating of college athletics as vague and non-committal, and indeed those passages taken by themselves still seem to us non-committal and vague. The result of this conference however may be taken to establish a definite idea of what the faculty's peculiar definition of "professional" is in the first place, and how clean sweeping is its prohibition of "professionalism" in the second place. President Eliot...