Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first glance the foundation of a fellowship whereby a single English student may study at the University may not seem to be of much importance. Yet, if the educated classes of England and the United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good...
...poor results thus far seem to be largely due to the indifference of the canvassers. Only seven or eight men out of sixty are reporting regularly at head-quarters. Any member of the Canvassing Committee who feels unable to continue his work on the Loan, should notify his team captain immediately...
...people, not as individuals. Yet, when we examine his statements we find much truth in them. And paramount among the explanations which we can offer for the dearth of individualism in the United States stands our educational system, with its emphasis on the average student. Our colleges seem altogether to encourage a dead-leveling process, which stifles great individual attainment...
Spring is in the air this week, and the University is restless. Class room walls seem but the dusty shells of a dying season and Sever Hall a fit subject for a systematic experiment with dynamite. Watch the professor: he feels it too. If anyone were within miles to observe him during the of attenuated seven-minute interval before his class, he too would be seen to peer dreamily out of the window, to yawn cavernously, and scratch his unhappy neck in anticipation of that soft collar which he is to assume in June. He too is looking forward...
...foregoing irrefutable torrent of natural history leads right down to the following fair proposition: Why not pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily...