Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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However good the present system for assigning rooms may seem on paper, every student knows that, in reality, it is open to many objections. It is about time that some better system were adopted which would give every man a fair chance, and which would not be liable to so many abuses. In the first place, the rule is that seniors are allowed to retain their rooms for their own occupation. But they are not allowed to transfer their rooms in case they decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly...
...Herald correspondent puts it. Indeed, we have reason to think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will not be good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause a failure of candidates to appear for this nine. To this latter objection we can only instance the scrub games that have gone...
...college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion. And then the editors, speaking through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July, 1810): "The foreign transactions...
Today and Monday are the last days for handing in applications at the bursar's office for rooms next year. The selection offered is quite varied, but is not considered to include very many desirable rooms, most of which seem to have been retained by their occupants or reserved for the freshmen. No rooms are offered in Stoughton...
...both direct and indirect, at either place, the substantial truth of our first thesis as an illustration remains still unimpaired. We would, by no means, be willing to use the University of Michigan in this statement as also representative of Western colleges of mediocre stamp, as the Review would seem to wish to have us do. That would be manifestly absurd, and we refuse to be cajoled into such a course, even by the staid Review. The Review treats of this whole question with so much patriotic ardor and industry and so much native vigor of style, that...