Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reviewer continues; - "It is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own." But do they? Does the writer insinuate that an English House of Commons is better than an American House of Representatives? If he does, is he the "patriotic" student he claims...
...rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own. If the CRIMSON teaches - and it sometimes seems to teach - that we are to follow what is American because it is American, it certainly opposes the spirit of this most American University...
...study of the minor living poets of England discourages the hope that any among them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little of the poet's inspiration though much of the poet's art; and we read them only to be gratified by a certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like...
...Yale Courant has a characteristic editorial on the Princeton game; as the Yale papers seem to be quite frenzied over their late reverses, we may expect to see this recrimination, - childish and spiteful as it is, - continuing for weeks to come...
...powerful stereopticon. View after view is projected on the screen, and it is difficult not to feel that one is actually transported to the land of mountains and glaciers. We would remind the students that the lectures begin promptly at seven o'clock, not at half past, as some seem to have got the impression...