Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate committee on the revision of the University Hymnal announces a competition in hymn writing, in which words, music, or both will be acceptable, open to all members of the University. Dr. Davison and others have consented to judge the works presented and to choose any that seem suitable or worthy to be printed in the new hymnal...
...vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all committees on prizes shall report not only the essays for which prizes have been awarded, but also those essays which seem to be worthy of distinction; and all essays reported shall be considered in the award of scholarships and the granting of degrees with distinction...
...should like to call attention to a fact, which, although well known in Boston musical circles, does not seem to be generally realized by the student body of the University--that Harvard possesses perhaps the best trained male choir, devoted to church music, in the country...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...
...clear that American boys keep their heads in this matter; whatever the space given to college athletics by the newspapers, and no matter how tense the absorption of graduates, the boys themselves seem to pick their colleges without much regard to the winners. There was a great and general increase in the number of boys going to college beginning about the middle or end of the eighties, and many colleges showed the result in their numbers; but success in athletics has been one of the least of the causes which controlled the distribution of the increase. It is a habit...