Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...loud o'er every egg, - 'twould seem...
With all this in its favor, the advisability of a change would seem to be very uncertain. Our annual race should - like that of Oxford and Cambridge - become a fixture, over a fixed course; as few things will tend more to decrease the number of spectators and the interest of the world at large in our races, than to be continually changing our courses...
...Harvard, and will be more or less like the exhibition given every winter at the Union and other gymnasiums. For this reason every Harvard athlete should take pride in making it as good as possible, so as to compare well with exhibitions of like character. There does not seem to be a prospect of many entries on the Horizontal and Parallel Bars. This is probably due to the fact that because one or two men excel on these pieces of apparatus, every one else thinks that there will be no chance for him, and therefore he will not enter...
...system is doubtless a good one, since it enables any particular book to be used by a large number of students, when otherwise it could be used only by one or two at the most. But there is a marked contrast in the extent to which different instructors seem willing to afford this assistance to the members of their electives. Of course each of them has the right to do as he wishes in regard to what and how many books he will reserve, and is under no obligation to reserve any if he thinks it unnecessary. But when this...
...friend George ever fell in love with Alice Hadden is - well, inexplicable. His is one of those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...