Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Have you seen anything of the Senior Button Committee? It seems to have disappeared entirely from view. Over at Leavitt & Peirce's there are about a hundred orders for buttons, each with its thirty cents (30c.) accompanying it, which have been calmly waiting since the last week in October for the committee to attend to when it found the time. Of course, I realize that it is too much to expect the committee to devote any time during the stirring days of the football season to such a trivial matter as the filling of orders for buttons, but it does...
...injustice of Harvard's reputation in certain quarters for snobbishness and for indifference has long been keenly felt by those connected in any way which the University. The editorials reprinted below seem to indicate that what remains of a widespread popular feeling is being broken up, and that the University is at last coming to her own in the eyes of the public...
...other class election is as important as this last one. And so it is the duty of every Senior to cast his vote in order that the results may show the real preferences of the class. To the men who by reason of their loyalty, ability, achievement, and promise, seem capable of doing their class the greatest service rightly belong these last class honors...
...consular services were not those branches of the public service largely given over to the spoils system. In view of the fact that an organization has recently been instituted at Harvard with the object of interesting men in this subject, an innovation which deserves the warmest support, it would seem important that the present status of the diplomatic and consular services under the Government of the United States be clearly explained for the benefit of those members of the University who may consider eventually entering them...
There is a communication reprinted herein from the Alumni Bulletin concerning the cheering at the Yale game. It is signed Sporticus Antiquus and treats Yale sportsmanship in the stands rather severely. The Yale cheers did seem more frequent than necessary when Harvard was on the defensive, but as far as rattling from the stands is concerned, both in this last game and at baseball games, there can never be any certainty that it does not come largely from those near-collegians who cause so much trouble on other occasions; at least, such a severe indictment of such a very general...