Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Byron's copy of Ossian's Poems are a number of critical and eulogistic notes which seem to have shown Byron's great appreciation of Macpherson's talent as a poet, and this appreciation is more directly shown by the fact that Byron gives a rythmical version of Ossian's address to the sun, beginning thus...
...last Tuesday evening, it was suggested that if there existed some such committee of the students as was proposed, the disgraceful condition of the walking on Holmes field would probably be improved. The icy condition of the path renders the walking not only difficult but positively dangerous. It would seem as though the corporation might, without any great expense, have a few ashes scattered on a path which is used by so large a number of persons...
...advocates of the Annex make what, compared with the claims of the majority of people who talk on co-education, seem to be slight demands. Harvard is not asked to furnish a system of co-education, and she is not asked to take up a new and untried experiment. The Annex merely asks a recognition and permanent opportunity for the continuation of a work which has been carried through with success for four years under the shadow of our university. No revolutionary policy is asked of us: no changes in the methods of instruction. To quote from the report...
Oxford and Cambridge are of somewhat different natures themselves, but seem alike if we compare them with the American college. But, with all their advantages, pleasures and attractions, the Harvard student will find many reasons for preferring his own Alma Mater...
...whole the prospects for a good team next season are excellent, and, with conscientious work, we can probably keep up the reputation we have so justly earned. It must be borne in mind, however, that nothing but conscientious work can accomplish this result. Some men who play lacrosse seem to look on it simply as a pleasant recreation and so think it unnecessary to practice more than semi-occasionally. Conscientious training is as necessary to success in lacrosse as it is in base-ball and rowing, for the game requires great powers of endurance as well as precision of action...