Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Members of the University at large seem to know so little about the Bussey Institution, hardly considering it a part of the University, that an account of the work done there will be of interest...
...common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known to suffer by the loss of men through probation. Before cause has been given this year we protest against the unfairness of such men, so that protest may not seem complaint against a particular individual...
...present over-development of athletics in the colleges of the country is particularly harmful in its effects upon the preparatory schools. It is not to be expected that young boys should set their ideals higher than those which seem to move their elders; and certainly of all the activities of the college men of today, those directed toward the attainment of the athletic ideal are the most conspicuous. The school boy sees almost no side of college life but the devotion to athletics in one form or another, of which he has constant evidence. The real intellectual work which...
...Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem to us only the severest tragedy. What he wishes to get at is the comedy in Hamlet according to the Elizabethan point of view. Charles Scribner's Sons will publish the book in this country...
...extreme exertion of their authority, involving as it does the setting aside of the athletic committee's wishes, is hardly defensible strong graduate and undergraduate opinion, especially that of an able and experienced committee such as Harvard has, should not be so lightly disregarded. For the present it would seem that the Faculty should be content to advise and not to dictate...