Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This building cost about $200,000 has a seating capacity of over 1100, and as the proposed alterations are to be made for the purpose of increasing this capacity, it would seem that the idea in the last President's Report suggesting the erection of a new building has been given...
...twenty one chapters describe various excursions which the author made in the White Mountains about Chocorna Lake. The reader is interested in the movements of a human being and the descriptions of birds and trees and flowers seem to be mere incidentals, yet in reading the book one finds that besides being delighted with a story, one is learning lessons, unconsciously learned, but valuable still. It is the faithful record of what may be seen and heard in the world of nature by one who will use his eyes and ears. There is an excellent index...
...injustice either towards her own candidates or the teams and representatives of other colleges. The rules which she proposes to adopt in her athletic reform are in some respects less sweeping than those we have here adopted; in other points they are even more radical. In all they seem to us to be thoroughly fair, and certainly suitable for the successful accomplishment of the end at which all the American colleges should aim - the purification of intercollegiate athletics. An amicable and satisfactory termination of those questions which necessarily arise from time to time between Yale and her "dearest...
Many of the students seem to think that by signing the petition for a new dining hall they will give up their right to a place in Memorial Hall next year. This is not so, for the petition distinctly states, that the signer wishes to board at a place similar in price and management to Memorial, only in case he cannot obtain a seat in Memorial Hall. Thus by singing the petition no one will be obliged to leave the existing association...
...development of the industries of Massachusetts and of New England; if it stands today the largest, most complete school of its class anywhere to be found, the acknowledged model upon which institutions are being organized, both in the new world and in the old, - then it would certainly seem that, in a community so lavish in its beneficence, so intelligent in its selection of the objects of all beneficence, the Institute cannot long be suffered to lack that ample and substantial foundation which will not only afford, security for its future, but will be the source of strength and confidence...