Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reality another publication. Until the appearance of the last named sheet, we really have had no literary paper for some years. We have had a humorous paper, a light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus...
...higher position than that. They are all engaged in similar work, have the same end in view, and teach mainly the same subjects. Why is it then that this one assumes, and has a right to assume, a title of supremacy over all the others? At first there seem to be many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success...
...told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...
...junior crew is sadly demoralized. They have about eight men in training, five of whom are totally without experience. The whole crew seem to train without much spirit, although they go out on the harbor regularly every afternoon...
...evening one of the students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required to officiate, and in his absence one of the tutors. From numerous traditions it would seem as though the tutor especially thought they were working by the day, and not by the job. Music by the singing club was furnished only on Sundays. Within the last thirty years, even, students have been compelled to go to Chapel by star-light, and this not in the evening either. Although...