Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Saturday Yale defeated Williams 76 to 0, and yet, according to trustworthy accounts from New Haven, most of the team seem to be candidates for the hospital...
...publish in another column a report of the position Yale has taken in regard to the foot-ball games this fall. It seems a little strange for her to take such a position immediately after a convention in which she took part through her representatives and agreed to the plans decided upon. The matter stands thus between Yale and Princeton: Last year Princeton could not play on the usual ground, New York, on account of a faculty regulation. So she played in New Haven. This year the regulation still exists, the rumor mentioned in the article to the contrary...
...university such as Harvard, where so much care is taken to perfect the sanitary arrangements both of the dormitories and lecture halls, the state of the atmosphere in some of the recitation rooms is something simply disgraceful. Some of the instructors seem forgetful of the fact that windows have been purposely arranged to facilitate the ventilation of the rooms. The only chance for a change of air in many of the recitation rooms is the short interval of about five minutes when the door is open for the entrance of the incoming class. The consequence of this is that...
...without the University; (2) shorter papers and notes on topics of interest; (3) correspondence showing the movement of economic thought in the principal foreign countries; (4) a condensed bibliography of publications in political economy for the preceding quarter; and (5) such reprinted articles, documents, or statistical matter as may seem useful for the student of economic science...
...often happens that students when about to leave college, are heard to deplore the fact that their education has been so much less broad and complete than they could have desired, and that certain sides of themselves seem altogether untouched by their college training, and certain subjects utterly uninvestigated. Such complaints were scarcely heard in the times when a defined course of study was requisite for a degree; then, the regrets were that such and such studies from which neither pleasure nor profit had been derived had consumed so much valuable time. All grounds for these regrets are now removed...