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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year," - examinations soon will be upon us. The schedules were given out to-day in the various recitation rooms, and seem to give general satisfaction. In one or two cases, however, there is too much crowding; some men having three examinations in two days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 12/11/1886 | See Source »

...food at Memorial does not seem to improve very fast, although the number of complaints is very large now and increasing. To be sure we have been favored with meat at luncheons, which is a little fresher, and this is an improvement, no doubt. But why should we be served with potatoes that are unfit for eating, simply because the meat is better? It is a fact that a student going to luncheon at fifteen minutes past one finds great difficulty in getting any potatoes at all, and then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

...average of two tens to each of the class crews rowing during the winter would give eighty men as the number using these weights daily. It would seem as if this would make it worth while to have the apparatus in the best possible condition, at least as well repaired as any of the rest of the apparatus in other parts of the gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/3/1886 | See Source »

...sentiments expressed in the communication published to-day relative to the extension of the Christmas vacation, are opinions which are daily gaining a firmer foothold in the minds of all undergraduates. In proportion as the number of students come to Harvard from the far West, the more does it seem that the faculty should acknowledge the fact by granting a longer duration of the Christmas recess. The faculties of other colleges, although suffering rather severely from conservatism, have, notwithstanding, had enough foresight, progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/3/1886 | See Source »

...Harvard's religious system before the recent changes it was often urged that an afternoon service would be more valuable and would be better attended than the usual morning service of prayer. At all events Vesper services are now to be held every Thursday afternoon. Although it would seem unnecessary to remind undergraduates of their responsibility under our present enlightened system of religious worship, we earnestly desire that they would encourage the preacher of the university in their work by a full attendance at these Vesper services. If we wish to show that Harvard has a true religious spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/3/1886 | See Source »

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