Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea of Christ. In fact, irreverant though it may seem to admit it, Christianity is indebted to pagan ideas for a number of our religious ceremonies...
...will be mounted suitably and all similarly framed. The College will pay all the expenses of the work, and the pictures will be sent as an exhibit of the Harvard Camera Club. They will be chiefly the exteriors of the buildings, taken either singly or in groups, as may seem best...
...School, O'Neill and Norton in the Law School, and Kedzie, '93 S., who once attended the North Western University. The loss of these men will materially weaken the team, but the advantage to be gained in future by the more nearly absolute purity of athletics must seem to the unbiased mind to clearly overbalance...
...however, some facts in connection with this effort for the "purification of athletics" which are not generally known and which ought to be well understood. Yale cannot justly claim to be the originator of this scheme to reduce college athletics to the minimum of professionalism, as current reports would seem to imply. In point of fact Harvard made a proposition to Yale in May of 1890 which practically covered the ground now taken by Yale. This proposition contained articles of agreement which should regulate all contests in football, baseball, rowing. and track and field athletics. The article on time limitation...
...life of the student is very simple. They all live in plainly furnished rooms, in comparison to which the ordinary rooms in our dormitories would seem palatial. Every man rooms alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...