Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wages for cook and help, $153.- 80 may at first seem a large sum; but when one considers the importance of the cook's position, he practically has the success of the crew in his hands, one would naturally expect that high wages should be paid for a short term of service. It may be well to add that "help" signifies three assistants...
...solely and directly to the association were to be appointed this state of things could soon be remedied. The changes which have been suggested can be made only by the authority of the corporation, and their attention should be called to the matter. Even if this plan may not seem expedient yet some determined effort should be made immediately to save the digestions of those unfortunates who "feed" at Memorial...
...Howells and the Realistic Movement" seems like an attempt to hoist that author into the position of leading novelist of the nineteenth century. It is hard to judge in a case like this, because personal taste must play so important a part in our criticisms. But I cannot agree with Mr. Parker, though I admit that his arguments are strong ones, and seem to be founded upon a more thorough study of Mr. Howells and his works than is usual with a living author at the present day. As a result of careful consideration the article is well worth...
This is the season for our annual complaint about the shortness of the Christmas vacation. It seems extraordinary that the faculty should not yet have opened their eyes to the plain fact that they gain nothing and that the students lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Your remarks in Wednesday issue about hour examinations seem well-founded. They undoubtedly voice the sentiment of nine-tenths of the students on that subject. If we are to have a return of regular, oft-recurring examinations, let us have them in the shape of monthlies, to whose occurrence we can look forward with certainty. Such an arrangement would be far less disagreeable than the present whimsical system...