Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock. The contest is open to all students enrolled as Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors in Harvard College. The sum of fifty dollars will be awarded in three prizes of $25, $15, and $10; or if in the opinion of the judges some other form of award should seem more fitting, the sum may be differently apportioned, according to the comparative merits of the speakers. By the terms of the gift, all the contestants will be required to speak the same selected speech or piece of literature...
...there really seems to be no reason for the spring recess coming at a time so unsatisfactory to everyone. Is it because by changing it a time-honored custom would be broken? Yet it is only a few years ago that the arrangements of Commencement week were changed. Is it because the change would interfere with the April hours? This does not seem to be a valid reason. For since the November hours come only five or six weeks after the opening of college the April hours could be all over several weeks earlier than they now are. For they...
...teams, in addition to the 700 men registered in other athletics. There are few men who do not at some time or other compete for a team, and there is no man so poor that a try is not worth while. Such has been the general attitude. This would seem to silence any doubts of those who deplore "an athletic aristocracy...
...first Freshman crews will be on the river by the beginning of next week, according to the plans of the coach. Twelve crews are now working regularly on the machines. The Freshmen seem to have a promising squad. H. A. Quimby '18, captain of the Exeter crew last year, has been appointed temporary captain of the first crew, subject to election...
...Class Day ceremonies in the Stadium seem to me to be singularly monotonous and inconclusive. Except for a more or less witty Ivy Oration and the very pretty slinging of streamers and confetti there is nothing but a dull series of cheers. Since this occasion is largely a reunion of graduates, and since even among undergraduates only a part of the Freshmen are not supposed to have seen it before, could not some scheme be devised by which this ceremony could be made more entertaining to all present? I submit this to the serious consideration of the 1915 Committee...