Word: seems
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR JACK, - You took my last letter so good-naturedly that I am going to reward you with another; and, as you seem to be rather doubtful as to the comparative expediency of studying and of doing nothing, I shall preach to you this time about college work. You ask me whether it is advisable to study or not. It is pretty much as if you had asked me whether it was advisable to be good; and my answer will be the same. Of course you ought to, but sometimes you had better...
...that either sloth or devotion to higher pursuits has taken away large numbers of the devotees of the race-course. The club races and the athletic sports have been universally acknowledged "fizzles." But while the contests among ourselves have not reflected as much credit upon us as usual, we seem more likely this year to carry away laurels from the contests before us with other colleges, than last year. Our Nine has already covered itself with glory, and has not yet been stopped in its victorious career. Success in the game with Yale on Monday will leave us, unquestionably...
...seem to live them again...
...tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations" must obtain fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects, would take more space than we can give in this column. We only wish to say here, that we have made...
...these days of progress, when the attention of the Faculty is especially directed to the different ways in which the standard of scholarship may be raised, there is one class of students whose interests are little considered, and who seem destined to be the scapegoats of every disagreeable required study which is discarded by the other classes. It is hardly necessary to explain that the class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which...