Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prevent a goal from being thrown. Thus the play would be protracted and an uninteresting game would be the result. Now the ??? is empowered when darkness comes on to give the game, in case of a tie, to the side which has shown the best play. This, perhaps, may seem to give too much power to the referee, but will effectually put a stop to the block-game...
...seems in the highest degree inadvisable, if not absolutely unfair to the freshmen that they are required to commence Analytical Geometry this term before taking their examination in Trigonometry. It is well understood that the former is the hardest subject of the freshman year and requires very close application to pass in the June examination; and, when it is first begun, it is not the time to neglect it. At this time the freshmen are especially busy in preparing for the approaching examinations, one of which is Trigonometry. Either because the present freshman class is particularly brilliant or from some...
...something that gives support to the moral law. Now in two directions we may seek for such a religious aspect of nature: namely, in the laws of mental life and in the laws of physical life. To consider the first of these two - the natural growth of every man seems at first sight to lead him away from what we have defined as genuine morality. For this natural growth leads to individualism, self-assertion and independence, and these tendencies seem opposed to unselfish, impersonal regard for other beings. And it is true that individualism, up to a certain point...
...Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a species of almsgiving, but the majority seem to take a wider view, believing that as aid to education has become necessary in the common schools, it does not injure the ministry or other professions to extend that aid by college scholarships and private assistance...
...correspondent in another column, signing himself " '86," brings up again the question of training for the crews. Much has of late been said upon this subject, so that any further discussion may possibly seem unnecessary. Still we think that the matter is one of vital importance to our rowing interests, and should be very carefully considered...