Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that Cornell has established voluntary chapel attendance recalls to us the fate of our chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly...
...novel. Sensationalism has been shown and any defense, especially in an aggressive way, is presumptuous and entirely out of place. In addition, the college press should not be made the means whereby correspondents who write in good faith can be flatly accused of jealously and personal animosity. It would seem that "after years of experience" the "Graduate" would have learned the fundamental principles of required journalism...
...words bring before the undergraduates of to-day a picture of noble work, and lead them to look forward with sturdier ambitions. All, however, will not see the paradoxical feature of Harvard's reputation. To many, Harvard may be conservative, but to more the Harvard of to-day would seem to champion the side of new ideas. If Harvard is conservative, the "New Education" shows the liberal side of her conservatism...
...Fullerton has given a good maxim for the novelist. There are, however, a few examples of the base made beautiful by art, that seem to combat with his conclusion. The question he has presented is a nice one, and his treatment of it is, one the whole, to be commended...
Professor Palmer deals with the objection to free choice on account of the immaturity of students as follows: "Many people seem to suppose that at some epoch in the life of a young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit...