Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...development of the 'varsity ball nine will be eagerly watched this year. The chances of success are so small that the thought of victory is likely to be ridiculed, especially by men not connected with the University, and it is a wonder if sometimes all effort does not seem hopeless to the captain. And yet there has been no falter in the work spent upon the nine, and we are confident that there never will be. This staunchness of purpose, this carefulness over plans, this determination in action at so trying a time is precisely the thing needed, and there...
...management of the Latin Play has issued a number of attractive and elaborate placards announcing the play. These have been posted in the usual places and most of them have promptly been torn away. Even to men who have no direct interest in the play, this thievery will seem unusually despicable. The play is a large venture,-represents an immense amount of work, and is, at least, entitled to be unmolested. The placards have been put on sale and can be obtained for a few cents. The management expects that many men will desire the placards and has provided this...
...dash, that they do not mind scurrying to one side of the walk, and, in muddy weather, of being generally bespattered. But for every one who does not object to this sort of thing there are probably two who do object, and object strongly. Now the matter does not seem to us to be a very serious one, and it calls for only a very little thoughtfulness on the part of the crew men. It must simply be recognized that the sidewalk was made as a convenience for Cambridge people and not as a means for developing crews. Cambridge people...
Among the editorials it is pleasing to come upon one which champions that much abused course, English C. Unfavorable criticism of the course has had pretty free play lately, and has, it is to be feared, gone too far. The Monthly gives what would seem to be a better advised view of the situation than has been generally taken...
Just as in days when the fog shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...