Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...love which the President felt for the Bishop and the appreciation of the administrative boards of his work. Dr. Lawrence writes a short article on some of the domestic traits of Dr. Brooks, and Rev. James Reed gives a short account of his college career, which does not seem in any way specially prophetic of his future greatness. Dr. A. P. Peabody adds an appreciative estimate of the Bishop's character...
Michigan and Northwestern Universities seem desirous of dropping the University of Minnesota from the Northwestern League...
...passed from proctor to proctor and treated much as copies of the Lampoon or Life might have been. Probably nothing could have been farther from the minds of the writers than the production of jokes and this unfair treatment of their work has been justly condemned. It would seem that men old enough to be graduates of College would be old enough to mind their own business. Certainly it arouses no friendly feeling in a man to see a blue book which has been prepared for fair examination, ridiuled by a proctor who sees something funny in every honest opinion...
...pleasure to be able for once to say that a number of the Advocate is up to its proper standard; the last few issues have made it seem as if perhaps the standard of the Advocate had permanently fallen, but with the issue of today comes a promise of better things, - a promise which it is to be hoped will not prove to be delusive. It would be indeed a pity if the "old mother" should grow feeble before she fairly reaches her prime, and should forget that she had once been quite a good-looking girl...
Octave Thanet adds one more story to to her "Stories of a Western Tour." Following the general tendency into which writers of short stories seem at present to be drifting, Octave Thanet has singled out her hero and is treating him in a series of careful and skilful sketches. Her style grows more and more pleasing...