Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...odium and the men are very careful about challenging a new member without sufficient cause. There is an element of humor and "coziness" combined with a certain amount of rigid discipline in all these ceremonies which is very refreshing, compared with all American attempts at beer-nights which would seem to bear out successfully the assertion of our German friend...
...make a living, much less a name, as an M. D., and the able doctor of forty or fifty years ago would be unable to compete with the doctor of to-day. Mental power and scholarly attainment, while they are demanded more and more in all professions, seem to be especially demanded nowadays in the profession of medicine. Would-be doctors may well attend the lecture to-night, and may expect to hear something worth hearing from one who has had the experience of Dr. Edes...
...Page, in his letters to the Nation, has brought to light statistics that are very gratifying to Harvard. No doubt, to a great extent, the story that they seem to tell is true, but, on the other hand, Harvard men must not be carried away by facts that have to do only with outward growth. Unless there has been an inward growth in some degree commensurate, it would be more than folly to pride ourselves on appearances. We do not call attention to this possible fallacy with the intention of asserting that there is foundation for it in Harvard...
...strict adherence to precedent is all very well in its way, but there is such a thing as carrying it too far. The way the Tuesday lectures are managed is perfectly abominable. The faculty seem to think that these lectures on professions are of no more interest to the college at large than those weekly lectures on Health which make such a scanty showing in the halls of Sever. Tuesday night every seat was filled by ten minutes past seven, nearly half an hour before the lecture began. After this there was nothing but standing room, and even that...
...would seem from this that Germans, as well as ourselves, experience difficulty in handling our language in connection with their...