Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first time on Sunday last, and its simplicity of operation and the satisfactory results obtained will lead, no doubt, to its permanent adoption. The new scheme may be outlined briefly as follows: The front row of seats in the gallery is freshly varnished. Then such students as seem inclined to be restless during the services are ushered to the deceptive seats, and the exercises begin. As the sermon goes on, it is noticed that the students occupying the previously prepared pews begin to assume an anxious expression. This the officiating clergyman considers due to the force of his rhetoric...
...night the senior class holds the most important meeting of its four years course. The class day officers to be chosen should be men well fitted to represent the class ably and with credit. The meeting bids fair to be a protracted one, and the indications seem to point to a session lasting well into the morning hours. This state of affairs is easily explained. Eighty-six differs from many former classes in having several men well fitted for the various positions to be filled, and at the present writing it appears as if every office on the ticket...
...give below extracts from the recently adopted rules at Yale. Compared with our few and lenient rules, these seem very severe...
...President Robinson is careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question, 'To what extent shall the system of electives be carried?' It is with him a matter of grave inquiry 'whether to exchange so widely, as so many seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students...
...trying to lose sight of neither. If the new succeeds, then very good; if it fails, the old is still near enough to be called back and taken up again in all its particulars. The many advances, however, that have lately been made towards the system as practised here, seem to imply very forcibly that the other colleges are thinking the system a good one, and realizing that without it they cannot compete with advancing Harvard. "President Robinson is careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question. To what extent shall the system...