Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination period comes, the undergraduate begins to ponder upon the injustice and hardship of this world and wonders whether life is worth living after all. He constantly notices cases where the greatest injustice occurs and wonders if it is not possible to prevent such things. It certainly does seem hard in the first place that the examinations, which are to give us the main part of our marks for the year, should all be placed at the end of the year when the weather is least suited for studying. In the Law School it is the custom, I believe...
College papers are not generally liked by college faculties; a situation which does not seem to give the papers deep concern. In college, as but of it, it is a safe plan not to put yourself in opposition to the papers.-[Progress...
...that we can't expect to get a four dollar a day board for $4.50 a week. But what we want more that anything else is a change, and this can easily be afforded us without any undue expenditure. It is really remarkable the way in which Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations or to be aware that innumerable cook books can offer them scores...
...amount of pleasure they confer upon the student must far outweigh any little trouble to which the club is put, and yet thus far the club has sung only twice. These concerts have for a long time almost formed a part of college life, and it does not seem as if the club could be justified in so slighting them. It is generally supposed to be a college institution; if it is, more attention ought to be paid to the wishes of the college, and these desires were plainly enough shown by the reception awarded the concert last Friday. Great...
...Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker...