Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in the crew. Well, the crew has gone, and there will be a brief week of anxious waiting. Let us hope we shall have two more victories to record, and two more pennants to adorn the walls of the trophy room. The victories must and will come; but if they do not, it will be because the better crew is Yale's or Columbia's; not because Harvard's crew has proved unworthy of herself and the college...
...feel confident that the hard work which the team have done will inspire them to exert themselves still more at a great immergency to secure the laurels which they deserve. The accident to Allen will inspire their opponents to strain every nerve for success. But the steadiness which has come of late to characterize the play of our nine, gives us every hope for a favorable issue in the contest to-day. The nine may rest assured that every Harvard man who has remained at Cambridge, whether he bends over a blue-book or prepares in desperation...
...during the last college year, has become especially noticeable. The men generally put down "anything" on their lists before they leave in the spring, and take their time up to the mid-year's to correct them. The result is that the roll-calls abound with men who never come near the courses, and the instructors are bored with a floating population of volatile individuals who have little idea what they want. The action of the faculty in this matter will meet the approval of all well-regulated students...
...number of instances have come to the notice of your committee of men in the class who have openly stated that they would not be in Cambridge on Class Day; but, nevertheless, intended to buy their package of tickets in order to speculate on them. The only excuse for such action can be pure thoughtlessness as regards its result. As a result of this speculation, the most objectionable class in the community is enabled to enjoy Class Day. In no case are the tickets supposed to be sold to any one who will use them for this purpose...
After the game the victorious freshmen, adorned from head to foot with crimson and white, hired a barge and drove around the city blowing horns and singing an adaptation of "Yale Men Say." They accepted an invitation from the sophomores to come and sit on the fence which the freshmen had forfeited, and many of them brought away chips of it as mementoes. In the evening there was a dinner at the Athenaeum, which was not very enjoyable, owing to the disturbances on the field being too fresh in memory. Most of the nine staid over Sunday in New Haven...