Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While not wishing to seem a grumbler on principle, I think a word against the practice, too common in our English department, of tediously dwelling on the life of an author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from...
...system is then best fitted to bear it. Constipation is the cause of many ills for which other reasons are assigned. It has been thought by many that tobacco smoking occupied a prominent place in the production of dyspepsia, but a large number of facts do not seem to warrant this belief as a general rule. In almost every case the use of alcohol has been joined with the use of tobacco in bringing on this trouble. Tobacco strikes at the nervous system, and as one of the secondary results no doubt the stomach may be affected. Among the stronger...
...advice is of a pleasant nature. We wish to call the attention of the freshmen to the society relations of the university. The prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student...
...transition is so sudden we are led to ask seriously whether the use of Harvard slang is merely an affectation or an unconscious habit. Members of the freshman class may always be relied upon to betray their collegiate standing by an inordinate use of purely Harvard expletives. This would seem to argue affectation. But again the post-graduate will make use of the same terms with only the addition of a rather indifferent drawl in their utterance. This would seem to argue habit. But let us see if another element is not contained in the matter. Every profession whether...
...into the public schools, outside of teaching the scholars the golden rules of honesty of heart and purpose, and such secular instruction as would best fit them for their battles with the mercantile world. These two essentially different views on the matter of religion in its relation to education seem to mark the two great tendencies in modern times. Many people would introduce religion into every phase of life; while many others would treat it as having no openly recognized connections with anything else. While we do not declare ourselves such extremists as those of the latter class...