Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...search warrant sworn out for that particular room. Therefore, unless this document is presented in regular form, no man need feel obliged to admit anyone, save the college authorities. On the other hand, every man is at liberty to protect his room from intrusion in any way that may seem best. In truth, either a policeman's billy, hat, or belt make a much better wall decoration than the handsomest street sign ever "ragged" by silly freshman or wicked sophomore...
Examinations seem to have but little effect in keeping men from the gymnasium. Indeed, there seem to be many students who exercise only during the period of examinations...
...would seem as though difficulty must arise in ranking justly those whose marks are near the line which separates two classes. One instructor might rank them in one class, another in another...
Anyone who visits the college rooms here may note the prevalence of magazine reading. Monthlies like Harper's and the Century seem always to have a great fascination for college men. Such literature is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the age, and we are in full sympathy - one thinks sometimes in too full sympathy - with the modern spirit...
...very long ago a copy of the Yale News made the boast that, while Harvard men were petitioning to have compulsory prayers abolished, the men at Yale were calling for an earlier honr for morning chapel services. This boast may seem to those, who know nothing of the matter, thoroughly justifiable; but it must seem to others, who understand the motives that prompt the movement, not so great a boast after all. The whole matter reaches a point of absurdity when it is known that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been...