Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...possibly seem inopportune, on an occasion so solemn as the last day before the mid-year examinations, to speak of any sort of festivities, but is it not time for the two upper classes to make arrangements for their annual dinners? The juniors last year held their annual dinner on February 18, as soon as the mid-years were over. The class of '90 held their junior dinner on February 19, 1889. In each case only about a hundred men were present. As the junior dinner affords the first opportunity for a social meeting of the whole class...
However much the smaller colleges may hesitate to follow Harvard in some of the liberal reforms, they seem unanimous in their desire to extend the elective system. The catalogue of Brown University for the current year, which has just been published, shows a largely increased list of electives. Instruction is now given in the Semitic languages and in Oriental history, in advanced Latin for lower courses, and in Zoology, Geology, and Botany. A course in classical Archaeology is also for the first time given to the senior class, and other students who desire to attend. German, which was once...
...view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox of life, which...
...however,- as would seem most probable-the president of the Glee Club did not write the communication himself. I can only sympathize with him for the character of the correspondent who chose to masquerade under his name...
...present time the outlook for a winning Mott Haven team is extremely encouraging. The number of candidates is very large and the chances of developing good material out of them seem unusually good. The Boston Athletic Club meeting on February 14 is the event of immediate importance to which the candidates of the team are directing their attention...