Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is to be an American philosophy, it must be realistic. I suspect they will never produce an idealistic philosophy like that of Pleto in ancient times, or speculative systems like these of Spinoza, Leibnity, and Hegel in modern times. The circumstance that Emerson is an American may seem to contradict this, but then Emerson, while he opens glimpses of truth, is not a philosopher; his thoughts are like strung fearls, without system and without connection. On the other hand, the Americans believe that there are things to be known, to be prized and secured, and will never look approvingly...
This gloomy picture may be a trifle over-sombre in its coloring, yet the fact that a graduate of Yale has felt warranted in producing it would seem to show that it is but a question of time when even Yale will fall into line, and fellow the example set for her by more liberal Harvard...
...after models which he had himself invented. Many improvements over the old dynamos and lamps have been made, especially in the lamps, the filaments of which are made of a silk thread, instead of the bamboo strips and other substances used by other inventors, the great advantages of which seem to be that the silk is perfectly pliable after being carbonized, that the lamps thus constructed require less power to produce lights than heretofore, and lastly, that these filaments can be manufactured in great numbers in a very short time, and at a trifling cost...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen. - It seems to me that a word should be said concerning those students, happily not many in number, who make themselves conspicious at prayers by reaching for hat and books as soon as the hymn is ended, and starting down the aisle before the benediction is half out of the minister's mouth. These things are a gross discourtesy to the great majority who, no matter what they may think about the advisability of morning prayers as now carried on, still feel they owe it to themselves to behave respectfully; - to say nothing of those...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Two members of the class of '89 seem to be worrying themselves not a little about the examination in German. The first communication cried "baby," Mr. "Freshman" played "baby." The former, however, was evidently in earnest; the latter either wanted to impress the freshman class and the college in general with his superior ability, (for "because he deliberately shirked the great part of the work," he found some things that he did not know perfectly), or thought that he had found an opportunity for indulging in some (childish) sarcasm...