Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...table of seven distinct and definite courses, from among which matriculates will hereafter choose one. Each course is designed with reference to the student's subsequent career, and the courses have been arranged after a careful comparative study by the faculty of the combinations usually chosen, and those which seem to afford the best training for the respective professions...
...following are some of the records made at St. Paul's School Thursday, which seem to compare quite favorably with college records: 100 yards, 10 1/2; quarter-mile, 53 1/4; half-mile, 2m. 9s.; running high jump, 5 ft., 4 1/2 in.; throwing the hammer...
After months of speculation by the country at large, the board of overseers, contrary to popular belief, has decided not to confer the degree of LL. D. on the present governor. The question seems to be simply, whether the university should follow a somewhat questionable precedent and confer a degree upon one who was deemed unfit for it, or, breaking away from this precedent, not to give it this year, and in the future only to those who were deemed especially fitted to receive the degree. It is, of course, unpleasant to mark out in this way some particular...
...half year's work, is a wise one and is a movement in the right direction. The advantages it offers are obvious, and it is certainly to be hoped that the experiment next year will meet with complete success. If the plan does prove successful there would seem to be no reason why it should not be largely extended and made to include under its operations many other courses. Indeed, it is a question that may well be asked, why all our courses are not half-year courses? Such is the method pursued, we believe, with all electives...
...admitted, is the opportunity it offers the student to spread his work over too wide a field - to dabble in too many subjects at a time. A system which would require concentration upon fewer subjects, we believe, is to be desired. This result the system of "semester" courses would seem to provide...