Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examinations, to enter military or naval service, or any other forms of national service approved in individual cases by the respective Administrative Boards, the courses thus interrupted be credited as if they had been continued to the end of the year; provided that instructors, after applying whatever tests may seem to them expedient, shall return for such students grades representing their standing up to the time of their departure; or that if any considerable number of students shall be called to service at any one time, special final examinations shall be arranged for them...
...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...three fundamental institutions in society: the church, the home and the school. The first of these has miserably decayed; the second, through the influence of the industrial revolution, has for the most part given way to either places of work or places of recreation; the third does not now seem to be measuring up to the standards which men have set for it in the past. These institutions, as I have described them, exist all about us; a large part of their product are at present killing one another on the battlefields of Europe. Sociologists may have their "complications...
With the launching of a great German offensive upon a fifty-mile front, active fighting in the West has again become a grim reality. The Central Powers, victorious at every other point, seem now to match their strength with the enemy in the hope of striking a decisive blow toward a favorable termination of the war. Yet the general military situation makes it very possible that the present movement is but a feint in the concealment of another motive...
...would require a flood of sentiment to convince one's reason or taste that Dane Hall in its present condition is a thing of beauty. Even before the fire, that building was entirely unsuited to its surroundings; the invasion of broad streets and the subway made it seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction...