Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Your favor of April 25th is at hand. As we understand your position you object to a possible third game after Commencement Day because it is difficult to keep your players together after the close of the academic year. This does not seem to us a sufficient reason for declining our proposal...
...several occasions within the last two or three years, we have received communications in regard to the unnatural delight which some seem to have in making old John intoxicated. Apparently there are certain men now in college who find this a source of considerable amusement. If they all would stop and think seriously of the unfair advantage they take of John's weakness and of the gross injustice they do both to him and his family, we believe there would be none so unmanly or inconsiderate as to continue the abominable habit. Old John is old and feeble enough...
...other. Experienced judges in Boston and Cambridge have pronounced such a system thoroughly impracticable, as it allows no way of knowing beforehand how much to provide for the regular boarders, since they may on all occasions change from one plan to the other without notification. It does not seem to us that such a privilege is at all necessary or that it should stand as an obstacle in the adoption of this new proposal. The University needs without a doubt a second dining hall. The Memorial Hall directors have hit upon something which promises well and is acknowledged...
...cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question if at the rates a man could live anywhere near the Memorial standard for four doars a week. However we need not concern ourselves with the success of the scheme if it is settled, as it seems to be, that the Corporation will not put up the sort of hall the students request. Apparently we have nothing to lose by accepting their plan, and perhaps a good deal to gain. As long as Mr. Belles has stated that the men who sign now will not be tied...
...study of the style and peculiarites of Thomas Hardy with more particular treatment of his last work, "Tess of the D'rUbervilles." The poetry of the number is below the average. The editorial on the methods of awarding scholarships is straight forward and reasonable, and the plans suggested certainly seem preferable to the methods now adopted...