Word: seems
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Rachel the Reaper" and "Ye Gentle Savage" are still popular at this favorite theatre. The management of the Museum seem always to have the faculty of giving to their plays as long and as successful a run as they desire...
...easy and familiar old pronunciation is done away with, in favor of a new, foreign-sounding style. The pages of the old writers seem no longer to be regarded as mines of beautiful and lofty thought, of fascinating and exciting story, but rather as quarries whence to pry unheard-of subjunctives and rare optatives...
SOME seasons of the year seem especially adapted to the making of good resolutions for the future, without a fresh supply of which at least annually few men get along. For the student, such a season begins with the announcement of his semi-annual examinations. It is then that his account comes due, and his creditors, by no means lenient, expect the full amount with interest. Half the year gone, almost before we have fairly settled ourselves to the work, or forgotten the summer vacation! To the Freshman, indeed, of little importance as he looks forward to his four years...
Severe penalties are, however, sometimes adjudged for what seem to the majority of the students but trifles. I do not doubt that each one can think of examples in his own class where this has happened. Suspension under the best circumstances is open to the charge of injustice. It is hard to say that a man shall be deprived of all instruction by the College for three or six months for a mere technicality; because he failed to attend the requisite number of prayers, because he was absent a certain number of times from church without an excuse, because perhaps...
...would seem that the facilities offered at the Bussey Institution for instruction in agriculture are not taken advantage of or appreciated. For we learn that "no small part of the time of the instructors has been spent in supervising the construction of buildings, aqueducts, reservoirs, and roadways; in fitting and furnishing greenhouses, laboratories, and lecture-rooms, and in laying out grounds." This institution recently received an endowment of $100,000. But notwithstanding the improvements made and being made, it has not succeeded in inducing a single student to offer himself for the three years' course in agriculture. This fact seems...