Word: seems
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the whole system of conducting scratch-races is bad, and we can never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular club crews entered, it would seem desirable, although it has been objected that then all interest would be centred in the scratch and not in the spring races. Having got the crews together, the race could be started on time. This is the object to be aimed at; for then the crews could row in heats...
Ernst's pitching was wonderfully effective and Thatcher's catching almost faultless. Our outfielders had a good deal of work to do, and did it without an error. The only two serious faults in our nine seem to be want of judgment, at times, in their base running, and a tendency to become nervous when the bases are full...
...Record has gladdened our soul. It announces that the policy by which it has been governed from its birth is to be renounced. After heaping abuse upon that "scurrilous sheet," the New York Sun, it actually declares: "We beg the pardon of our readers for anything which may seem like Billingsgate in this article." It then adds: "We shall endeavor to keep our columns free from that offence in future. The issue of May 3 is remarkable in many respects, but nothing has startled us more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that...
There is, too, strange and sad as it may seem, a feeling among the more intellectual circles that the coming man will not be a Cartesian. A gentleman connected with the College said to me the other day that Descartes's writings would be regarded in a few years as interesting for intellectual gymnastics, but intrinsically valueless; and whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend...
...experience and the time of the formation of the R. A. A. C. The men of four years ago thought they did much hard work when they were trying for the "'varsity," but, compared to what the candidates for positions in the boat have done this winter, their exertions seem moderate...