Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once yearly the average undergraduate, dissolved into his component and unaverage parts, welcomes home to the Cambridgian shores the graduates. Again our hospitality is extended, although with such modification of its joviality that it might seem lessened in spirit. It is not lessened in spirit, but softened to these gloomy times of war, when everyone feels in duty bound obligated to look lachrymose, and forebode concerning the future, or lament the past...
...Rumors seem to have got abroad in some places that Harvard College will shut its gates next year, or at least will not devote itself to the ordinary process of education. If such rumors merit contradiction they may not only be contradicted, but repudiated, for the College would be unworthy of its traditions and its endowment if it ceased to carry on its proper work at a crisis like the present. The Freshman Halls, like all the other dormitories and academic buildings, will be open as usual, and the activities, especially of the freshman class, will go on without change...
...might laugh, for the world has turned so very topsy-turvy, and the badges of last year seem so idle now. But we may believe that before another spring has come again there will be some among those who now wear the unadorned service cap, that will be worthy of the cross of honor, and these, our young men who have striven so earnestly for success in athletics or managerships or papers, will be honored for the accomplishment of more unselfish service, and the fulfillment of deeds better done...
Since then, insofar as advices go, the submarine menace does not seem to have been finally throttled. No fortresses, no armies, have been overturned. We still use the former means of destroyers, chasers, and nets against the sea peril; and battles on land are still fought as they have been fought, with men and iron, and yet more...
...until we consider that 300,000,000 must be fed, and that 40,000,000 have been taken out of productive forms of work. Each bushel produced here now means a great deal to the progress abroad and makes the disposal we are to make of the summer seem very vital. We are not planning a summer lark, but the most effective way to spend fifteen weeks...