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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...workings of the secret societies here seem to be more harmonious and peaceful than at any other college we know of. There seems to be the very best of friendly feeling between them, and any stealing of each others books and papers, so common among the societies at some colleges, would not be tolerated here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS. | 1/19/1882 | See Source »

...rooms open out of the main apartment; they are about ten by fourteen, one employed as a study and the other as a bed chamber. A recent writer says of life at an English college, that it is intellectually far stronger than that of an American college. The men seem to accomplish more than we do, with less work. The dinner is regarded as the central feature of the daily life, for the whole college usually meets at this time. The hall is a very fine room, much after the style, in building and decoration, of our own Memorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/14/1882 | See Source »

That's a kiss in the abstract. It doesn't seem much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/13/1882 | See Source »

...different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees, and I don't know what all, used to arise to right the wrongs at which we so sternly pointed the finger of scorn. But now things seem to be altogether changed. These Harvard man are quite too incomprehensible. "Tis another exhibition of Harvard "indifference," I am sure. Our most scathing philippics seem to have no effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 1/11/1882 | See Source »

...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: It is a cold, disagreeable day here, and I cannot help being glad I am not at Wellesley, for it is doubly dismal there on a rainy day. Everything is shrouded and dull, and lessons seem to go wrong. Since the death of Mr. Durant, founder and munificent patron of the college, we have had quite a change in the management of affairs. A long vacation was voted the president, and our professor of history was made vice-president, and is becoming very popular among the students. Some time ago a party of Harvard men came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY LETTER. | 1/4/1882 | See Source »

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