Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...himself." It may be that in our preparation we did not give sufficient attention to rebuttal. But to whatever reason we may ascribe our failure, we have profited nothing by the lesson if we have not learned that the cause must be sought in our own mistakes. It would seem idle, not to say discourteous, after a defeat, to proclaim that Harvard has always stood for all that is fair and upright in debating, implying thereby that our opponents have...
...than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...
After all, however, it would seem that the best way to secure practice in debating in addition to that gained in the weekly club debates and in the intercollegiate contests is in more frequent debates between the Forum and the Union. If one of these were held every month and decisions were given, a healthy, competitive rivalry in debating would be established between the clubs, instead of that which now exists in each trying to get ahead of the other in every possible way on questions of precedence and in securing new members...
...question whether to keep the man with the hope that he will regain his standing before the race or final game, or to substitute another in his place at the outset. In view of his lazy attitude as compared with that of the others on the team, it would seem at least just to drop him for good and to let him understand that he has shirked his duty just as much as the man who has broken training...
...correspondence of the Post has since changed hands, the place being held by an editor of the CRIMSON. Since the correspondent of the Post is now allowed the privileges of the CRIMSON office, and incidentally, it seems, the distinction of being on one of the "best Boston papers," the correspondent of the Advertiser and Record is the only man outside the office. On the face of it, then, the attack made in the CRIMSON would seem pretty clearly to fall on me, or at least on me particularly. Against this I protest emphatically. I will match my spirit of loyalty...