Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds...
Good as the suggestion is, we confess that the plan does not seem feasible. A hotel would probably not pay; the patronage, taking the whole year into consideration, would hardly be large enough to ensure financial success. If the Colonial Club were not well established in its present quarters, it might be possible to have a large building, part of which should be devoted to the uses of a club modelled after the Colonial, and a separated part devoted to the accommodation of such visitors as secure introduction from a University officer. By combining the two under one management...
...support is not deserved. The nine is playing a good game, and, at any rate, students ought to recognize what a hard effort the captain and players are making. A large attendance at games with the accompanying enthusiasm is a palpable help to the nine; would not the students seem unappreciative if they should make the loss of this help one more obstacle for the nine to meet...
Surely without a considerable penalty for failure to return "Reserved Books" to the Library at the proper time we should not be as careful in this regard as the peculiar circumstances make it necessary that we shall be; yet it does seem that the penalty now is too severe. To lose one's privilege of taking out books of that class means a great deal, especially since it is lost for a whole month, and this too, many times, when a little slip of the memory is alone the occasion. Is not the forfeit unnecessarily great...
Attention will be repaid in several distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing...