Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have spoken before, and we take this opportunity to speak again, of the false statements which have appeared in many papers regarding the records of championships in the foot-ball league. The errors have come largely from ungrounded claims made in the Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been...
...Cummings. H. Webster also won a victory, making the total score five games to two in Mr. Cummings' favor. A few members of the Boston club had also taken tables, so that eleven games were in progress at once. The visitors were very cordially received and invited to come in at any time for informal games...
This was followed by a lively general discussion. It was finally resolved to appoint a general committee of ten, to represent as many different colleges. This committee will prepare a set of questions bearing on the subject which will be sent to every man who has come here from any other college, whether a graduate or not. From the answers to these questions a series of resolutions will be drawn up, and submitted for approval at a later meeting. A committee of three on nominations was appointed, which reported the following names: W. H. Carruth, C. W. Colby...
...present. In the light of the many misunderstandings of the recent resolutions of the Board of Overseers, now rife in the college world, any action to be effectual must be prompt and unanimous. There are one hundred and ten men now in the academic department who have come here from other colleges both for the greater personal freedom and the superior advantages for study which the Harvard system permits. United action by these men would be widespread in its effects. The movement is in the hands of energetic men and with proper co-operation a successful result is assured...
...know but one side. That there is a great opportunity for such work as they propose to do is proved by the score of editorials which have appeared in the college papers founded, in most cases, as we believe, upon ignorance, not upon malice. The men who have come here from other colleges have been attracted by the superior opportunities which Harvard affords, and a statement by them that the Harvard system is not a failure will be of especial weight and significance...