Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appears that at Yale a naturally uninteresting chapel service is made still worse by the wrong spirit in which the students attend. They seem too often to remember that they are present only because forced to be, and to forget the nature of the ceremonies in which they take part. Their behavior consequently loses its proper devotional character, and the entire service shows a harmful want of sincerity and earnestness. The students who gather each morning in Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they...
...editorial of yesterday, we left undiscussed the question of the ultimate disposal of the Gray and Randall collections of engravings. This question ought now to be seriously taken up, for it would seem that the sacrifice of Harvard's interests to those of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is not to be limited to the erection there of a wholly inadequate museum out of the funds provided by the Fogg bequest. The members of the Corporation practically make it evident through their statement in the Graduates' Magazine, that it is their intention not to place the Gray and Randall...
...returns so far from announcements sent to the teaching force of the University seem to indicate that the audiences at both the afternoon and evening performances will be large...
...carry this practice into cities where there is no college, they really take upon themselves the function of professionals; and the papers can not be greatly blamed if they call much attention to this incipient professionalism appearing where it would naturally be least expected. Newspaper notoriety, it would seem, can only be checked by the proposed restriction of college games to college grounds and college people, with the falling off in public interest which would surely follow. The restriction might be very difficult to enforce, but the resulting elevation in the tone of all collegiate athletics would be ample repayment...
...appearance of the crew has deteriorated much since a week ago. Individual faults seem to have cropped out in several men who last week had all the appearance of trying their utmost for perfection in rowing. There is not that life and jump throughout the crew which was so noticeable last week. Perkins at No. 5 seems to be responsible for much of this, for he is inclined to rush out on his slide so fast that he has to wait at full reach, thus making a distinct hang. Jennings at No. 4 has lately changed from the starboard...