Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent discussion in the Nation, carried on also to some extent in the outside press, it cannot be said that on either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion...
...penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more so as the elective system affords a method of avoiding attendance. "The majority of the students would be pleased, in my opinion," our correspondent writes, "if chapel was abolished...
...rules governing the actual rowing of the race seem to provide for all possible contingencies. Either boat is to be disqualified if at any point during the race it should be nearer than ten feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further provided that if during the first ten strokes either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine...
...rules seem to leave no point untouched about which a dispute might arise, and the provision that should any such point come up the referee shall decide it on the day of the race, will do away with all useless discussion, and there will be no danger of the crews being left in the nervous and uncertain state of last year...
...lives. For some men there need be no struggle to decide what profession to select; they are born with a genius for some specially, whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted to the study of one specialty. A wider range of knowledge should be entered upon and pursued until the last moment that...