Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only about two weeks more remain before the class races, the daily movements of the class oarsmen are beginning to be watched with greater interest; the freshmen especially seem disposed to encourage their crew by their presence at the boat house, while every pleasant day finds a good number of upper classmen congregated on the floats. All of the crews are now comfortably seated in their shells, which are in the main rowed very steadily. The freshmen are showing up remarkably well, a fact which looks well for the future of our University crew; their recent race with the Unions...
...president of Vassar College said, not long since, that "colleges for men seem to be places where they can kick off a great deal of superfluous energy and experience of youth, where they can be trained to be fit for the society of young women, and while they are undergoing this curriculum is it not just as well that the young women should remain at Smith and Vassar...
...tennis question is one which seems to be beyond solution. With the present limited grounds it is difficult to devise any arrangements which can give universal satisfaction. But, in spite of the difficulties of the question, it is one that should be grappled with, and for this reason any suggestions should be considered. More men are probably directly interested in tennis than in any other sport in college and the subject should be considered as of at least as great importance as any branch of athletics. While we do not propose to suggest any complete revolutionary scheme, there seem...
...cannot be said that co-education simply as co-education is a failure, nor can it be claimed that it is always a success. It would seem as though the better opinion would be that the advisability of co-education cannot be decided upon general grounds or from a preponderance of evidence in its favor, but that each case must be judged for itself. Where the conditions seem to be altogether favorable the experiment may well be tried, but in other cases the most careful conservatism would be the wisest policy. The president of Vassar very well says...
President Porter of Yale has been delivering some excellent observations on the two recent propositions which seem to promise results of the greatest importance to American university education, namely, the plan of establishing a great American school of Philosophy at Princeton and the proposed attempt to convert Columbia College into a great national university...