Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authorities to a sense of their responsibility. If such a fire should break out in the night-time in any of the college buildings, the disaster might include life as well as property. A number of these small fires have occurred during the past few years, but it would seem as if the lesson they teach would never be comprehended by the authorities. Are they relying on a system of chances, waiting until there is but one more chance left for a serious disaster, or will they never be convinced of their duty in this respect until actual loss...
...causes, there were but three Richmonds in the field, and unless prompt measures are taken during the winter by the friends of the game to keep alive the interest, which has always been a matter of hard work for the graduates of past years to keep up, it would seem that they have had but labor in vain. This is more the pity, for intercollegiate cricket matches will do much to promote friendly intercourse among college men, as in these matches there is more time for forming acquaintances between the teams than in any other intercollegiate sports...
...will accommodate both themselves and the class photographer by complying with the request of the committee. Through the efforts of the chairman of the committee almost all the class have given a first sitting, but the choice of proofs, in many cases, has been delayed. Further delay would certainly seem unnecessary...
...Yale papers seem entirely to fail to understand our position in regard to the race question. Last year, after we had sent our challenge, they replied with a conditional acceptance, which caused much argument and some ill feeling. The condition named by them was that the race should be rowed upon a certain date. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the conditions for the race were not agreed upon until the last moment, our crew was obliged to yield a point at the very start, and consequently had to row the race with the moral disadvantage of having...
There is also another reason that should cause our proctors to be retained, and that is this: their presence at examinations, however superfluous it may seem to some, at least harms nobody, while the proctorships offer to deserving graduates an easy way of earning money that does not come amiss to most of them. Let us bear in mind that proctors are mortals like ourselves. A good many people are under the same hallucination that Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found...