Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consideration, when the numerous weighty questions of college discipline and policy have been discussed and settled, is, if they will pardon the suggestion, the relative merits of naptha and gas as illuminating fluids. We do not favor lighting the yard much more than it is at present, but it seems as though the quality of the light obtained from a number of gas lamps equal to the present number of naptha "dips," would be enough better to make up for the additional expense. Further more, the odors coming from the naptha lamps are anything but pleasant...
...arguments in favor of an elective system such as ours, this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly...
...there are men who spend most of their time in the gymnasium or on Holmes or Jarvis Field, or rowing on the river, but even these do some work in college, or at least those who don't probably wouldn't do any better elsewhere, and the authorities certainly seem to think that if men won't come to college to study, it is better that they should come to row and play ball than not to come at all, on the same principle that we encourage people who come to our churches to hear the music, if they...
...pessimist is a child of the devil, with notions accordingly diabolical. Yet the fact is that the pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life...
Writers for college papers, like too many other writers, often go to work without in the least considering what they can do successfully. Few have minds filled for all kinds of composition. Yet unhappily most of us never seem fully to realize that we cannot make valuable contributions to every department of literature. We feel that whatever man has done, we can do, forgetting that we are not yet full grown men. We incline to the mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure...