Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with pain and regret that the CRIMSON refers to another of the time-dishonored practices which have been handed down from generation to generation of Harvard students. But just at this time some such reference seems absolutely necessary perhaps for the benefit of freshmen if of no one else. There is a certain class of men in college who seem to think that simply because they may have passed an examination, they are justified in making life hideous for a day or two to the poor unfortunates who are their neighbors, and who are still grinding for their own examinations...
...CRIMSON: It is surprising to note with how much impropriety, I may say with how much indecency, some Harvard men can act. There is a certain crowd of freshmen at Memorial, consisting of two adjoining tables, who, in spite of their sojourn of four months among us, do not seem to have found out the rules which govern us all here. They all appear to be gentlemen, and would doubtedless resent any imputation to the contrary; but on entering Memorial they cast aside all the conventional rules of society, and proceed to enjoy themselves in their own way, utterly regardless...
...idle. We were born in this age with its luxury, excitement and doubt, and in it we must live. The times, however, are not without their advantages. Excitement, though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
...training nea four months, and although their progress on the machines has been as rapid as is usual for freshman crews, there is one thing, and a most important thing, that they have not yet learned to do, that is to keep time at the chest-weights. This may seem a matter of slight consequence to the men; but they will learn that time at the chest-weights is fully as important as time at the machines. If a man cannot keep time in one case, he certainly cannot in the other. It is not inability, however,; that causes...
...should be free from all pretence and hypocrisy, honest and earnest aiming to be, not to seem esteeming no honor desirable except that which comes in return for character and service...