Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole we may reasonably congratulate ourselves that the inderx is what it is, for it seems impossible, to judge by these publications of sister colleges, to introduce any artistic features without including much that is unsightly, while any attempts at wit seem to verge on the vulgar. To be sure we have no doubt but that the Index might be improved in one way and another by an increase of statistics and the introduction of lists of former office-holders as in the Banner, but we are not inclined to grumble...
...days past some little comment has been passed by various papers on the sanitary condition of the buildings at Yale, owing to the recent deaths of persons connected with the college from typhoid fever. These seem to be reviving the general feeling of uneasiness which existed at the time of the Princeton scare. It does not seem possinle that any remediable cause of disease could be allowed to lurk in any of their college buildings...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON: Considerable annoyance has been felt since the term began, from peddlars, beggars, traders and book agents, who have been calling at the rooms of the students in the college buildings. The notices in all the entries seem to have lost their power of former years, and are now passed by unnoticed. The nuisance at present, is not a very grew, but in time it is likely to become even unbearable...
...which characterizes gentlemen. It becomes merely a stubborn contest between those who believe that Harvard men should in all cases and under all circumstances, behave like gentlemen and those who doubt this and express their doubt by their actions. In such a contest, we regret to say, the latter seem at present to have the advantage, but we hope that the action of the management backed by the good sense of the students will soon put down this practice which has already attracted the comments of the outside world...
...which are so high in point of excellence. It is claimed that they have a tendency to crowd out all other local music on account of their exceedingly low price, and if this be the case, it would certainly be a matter of regret to all, but really there seems to be room enough for both. Such a claim is unjust. They can never affect the great mass of local music for they do not enter into competition with it. If however, the question ever narrows to a choice between concerts by a club or two, and such a series...