Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fathers." This, he said, was the best thing that could have been said of David, "he served his own generation;" and to serve our own time is the best that any one of us can do. We are not called upon to worry now about the questions which seem to be very important for the future, but our duty is to do what we can to solve the problems of today and to help our own generation. How, then, can a young and well educated man best serve his own time? First what can we do to better the social...
...appreciate the inconvenience which may have been caused to those who have friends who are accustomed to look to them for complimentary tickets. But as Class Day is distinctly a seniors' day, for which the seniors themselves and even the Class Day officers have to pay, it did not seem just that their rights and privileges should be abridged in order to satisfy the demands which outsiders make upon their friends in the Faculty. We have been obliged therefore to consider first of all the personal wants of those who applied, but outside of these the number of tickets which...
...general tables have existed but a few years, starting as an encroachment on the original club tables. That they should now, though in a modified form, be extended over the entire hall, does not seem to be demanded by justice other than in the abstract. So radical a change involves the destruction of the present club life without any compensating gain to the general tables. It does not seem justified by the necessities of the situation...
...dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which was common to our Harvard soldiers...
...nine needs to make a change also. The men seem contented with being about even with the other team. That will never do in games against strong nines. They need to get into the game and make the most out of every chance for runs, no matter what their opponents are doing...