Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Memorial Hall with its new steward is in complete operation and has been running for nearly a week, a few remarks on what impression it presents to an old boarder, may not seem out of place. In the first place it must be understood that the short time that has elapsed since the opening of the hall does not, of course furnish a perfectly satisfactory basis for comment, but the general idea of what we are to expect can be gained from the number of meals we have already had. It is absolutely necessary that the hall should...
...Life is real ! life is earnest ! etc.,"the Leaves resumes its account of the trip: "It did not seem exactly in keeping to go to Harvard immediately after this;" (referring to the quotation, we suppose,) "but that was a part of the plan, and so-we soon left the tall iron fence of the cemetery behind...
...following remarks in his last annual address, in reference to collegiate games, societies, etc. "The multiplication of students' clubs, associations and societies, that call for intercollegiate games, or for annual meetings and reunions during term time, has now reached a point where some kind of restrictive action would seem to be called for. The number of absences required by these games and annual reunions is more than is consistent with the best results of scholarship. The weeks allotted to actual work in the present academic year of the colleges are too few to warrant the ever-recurring interruptions. Athletic sports...
...Hartford is said to work very well. The immediate effect of the change has been to nearly double the number of entries, which now amount to fifty. The HERALD has already suggested the advisability of a trial of this method in one of Harvard's tournaments; our argument would seem to be strengthened by the result of Yale's experiment...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Class after class graduates and leaves us, but there is one class of men who seem to stay with us in the most single-hearted fashion, who have made Harvard their permanent camping ground. Their numbers and influence increase year by year; they are a bane and a nuisance, and should be stamped out from the face of the globe. We refer to those wretched beings called "croakers." We are all familiar with and heartily sick of the man who said last fall that we were sure to be beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that...