Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
...been shown in previous years that the completeness of the secretary's first report depends very largely upon his receiving the "class lives" before the spring recess. To many men the questions asked may seem trivial...
...ways it falls short of the ideals for which President Wilson has stood. We find in it no broad principle of religious toleration, no recognition of the part played by commerce and trade in starting a war. We are bewildered by the complex wording, by the vague statements which seem to settle nothing in a permanent...
Many men cannot agree with the principle of the League of Nations. The reasons are obvious. In the first place it is an experiment, previously broached, perhaps, but actually untried. It would further seem to surrender a part of the cherished sovereignty of nations. Many powerful arguments are launched against it. Yet the men who are most violent in its criticism are helpless when they are asked to provide a substitute...
...Furthermore, in my opinion, however paradoxical it may seem, the broader or less 'specialized' the college education, the better is the man fitted for his great specialization--his life work., I firmly believe that the chief part of the educational reconstruction will be that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...