Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Makes all love seem less sweet...
...their hasty and discourteous action; but so long as there was a doubt, we preferred to make no editorial allusion to the affair. But the doubt exists no longer. The Yale papers stand convicted before the college world of a breach of courtesy toward an exchange whose merits would seem to entitle it to the highest consideration. Because "Smintheus" had satirized the Record in the Acta's columns, the edict of Yale's wrath was pronounced against it. We regret that "Smintheus" should have indulged in personalities. But before we even settle the justifiability of the satire that thus uncorked...
...Greek or Roman the place which English occupies in our education would seem absurdly small. There never was so fine a literature as ours, and never was a literature so neglected by those who possessed it. There are many college-bred men who have mastered Latin poetry and Greek plays, for whom Shakspeare continues to be Greek, and Milton but a stumbling-block...
...article upon the Exeter trouble the New York Times says that Professor Wentworth is deeply respected by graduates of the school. The feeling which we have heard some graduates express for that professor did not seem to us to be any thing akin to reverence...
...fourth chorus we do not know exactly what to say. It is thoroughly in keeping with the rest of the music, but it is far less satisfactory. It does not seem to be stirred by its own beauty. It has been very aptly termed indistinct...