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Word: seriously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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Finding a stroke for the university eight is the most serious problem before the coaches. Four men have been tried in the seat with indifferent success, and the place will probably not be definitely settled for some weeks. The most recent arrangement of the men has been as follows: stroke, Brainard; 7, Goodrich; 6, Howe; 5, Baker; 4, Hunt; 3, Wodell: 2, Glenny; bow, Rice. All of these places seem likely to be permanent except that of stroke, which is uncertain. Of these only Captain Howe, Rice, and Wodell rowed in the university or four-oared boats last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progress of Yale Crew | 2/2/1909 | See Source »

...course this idea is absolutely unfounded. The Seniors may feel assured that no one except the secretary will read these class "lives," and they can depend on him to use proper discretion. Every member of the class should not only answer all the questions candidly, but should make serious suggestions for the possible improvement of conditions here by advocating changes in the present system or proposing plans for the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR CLASS LITERATURE. | 1/28/1909 | See Source »

...pleasing the men who board there and not of finding the easiest wholesale job for the management, the writer believes that these efforts will meet with increasing success. A neglect of either system means a failure to attract the maximum number possible to the Hall and will result in serious difficulty again. W. A. COLWELL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/9/1909 | See Source »

...Promised Land," the first production of the recently founded Dramatic Club, impressed its audience at Brattle Hall last evening as an important and vigorous, though sombre, play, performed with almost professional ease and distinction; it presented a serious and worthy appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROMISED LAND" A SUCCESS | 12/16/1908 | See Source »

...Salter began by saying that there are two things that embarrass us in reading Shaw: first, whether he is to be taken seriously or not, and secondly, the way in which he shocks us morally. The first thing to be remembered is that he is a socialist and looks for no good results from our present social organization. He is annoyed to see people who are "comfortable" morally, because they have established a new public school, when they ought to be uncomfortable; and he tries to make them uncomfortable by his writings. He is really one of the most serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernard Shaw and His Philosophy | 12/15/1908 | See Source »

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