Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alleys converted into a mass of splinters by men who insist on bowling without removing their heavy boots. These splinters are liable to be run up under the nails, causing serious wounds. It may be further remarked that this inoffensive "professor" is paid by Mr. Hemenway, and it would seem more fitting to thank the donor of the Gymnasium for his continued generosity, than to whine like a peevish child who is not allowed to break its new plaything. The unfortunate "muckers" who come in for so much blame were introduced at the urgent request of students, and have certainly...
...customary undergraduate abbreviation of 'gym.,' as applied to such a structure, has been expanded to 'James' by the Harvard Echo, whose frequent use of the word would seem to indicate its assured position in the slang of the College...
...unsectarian principles of the School to the letter; but, as far as we know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian, and the failure of our own to maintain this character would seem to confirm this impression. But we see no reason why the abstract questions of theology should not be taught and discussed in an unbiassed manner, as well as those of philosophy and psychology, and we trust that Harvard may succeed in proving the possibility of such a system of instruction...
This quality, without which very few men become successful, would seem to be sadly deficient among us. Men will not enter unless they are pretty well convinced that they will get a prize; in other words, they are afraid of failing. Cases are common at every meeting where men withdraw at the last moment because some one whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky...
Affecting to seem unaffected...