Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand, the net returns from tennis for the last two years, after deducting maintenance charges and the expenses of the team, have averaged about $835. Now it does not seem fair to have this money turned over to furnish a trip for some minor team when the courts upon which about 400 men play daily are in such unfit condition and so inadequate to meet the demand. Two things ought certainly to be done: first, to put the present courts into suitable condition, and then to build more. Aside from the question of providing exercise for the largest possible...
...duty of the city of Boston to care for its crowds; and when the dust from a short stretch of road destroys the pleasure and threatens the health of so many, it is reasonable that the road should be either watered or oiled. Since, however, the city does not seem over zealous to take the initiative, and since the Athletic Association is in part responsible for the handling of the crowd, we would suggest that the association make some arrangement with the street department whereby the dust will be laid...
...Makes every dim pearl seem a star, Dawn-drowned...
...imposing upon the administrative officers of the College a heavy burden from which they escape battered, worn, and fatigued by endless arguments (to which they must not yield) only when the last hour of class-room work has come. These protests, and the subject itself, may at first glance seem frivolous, but it is not too much to say that the irritation caused by a rule which gives to these students but a meagre festival period at the great season of reunion and rejoicing has an ill effect upon the reputation of the College, and deters directly and indirectly...
...topic which S. Griffis of the Cornell Sun discussed was the future of college journalism. The possibilities seem to be more in the editorial column than in the news. Students today are prone to take on an assumption of vacuity, which of necessity is reflected in the editorials. They are not up to the standard of the rest of the paper and there is place for a man of force and personality to express his own opinions. The undergraduate is at college to get ideas, but as long as he pretends to be unwilling to do this, the influence...