Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does, we venture to think, seem a little out of place in a football field...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-At the Harvard-Princeton game last Saturday' I was struck with the difference between the two contesting teams ; whereas the Princeton men did not seem to play in the rush-line with any more vigor and earnestness than our men, still they so surpassed our rushers, in system, that the greatest difference in effect was discernable. Each man on the Priceton team seemed not only to know where he himself should be at a given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly...
...told, at the risk of not getting on the team,-as well as the foot ball powers of Yale or Princeton, a Yale or Princeton eleven will complete alter their method of play in a single year (and that means nothing in the world but coaching), whereas, our men seem to think that if they play hard, and keep in training, they have done duty, and no one has a right to find fault. They may have been told to tackle low or fall on the ball every day for two months, but that makes no difference. They shed what...
...nothing against the excellent instruction provided for us at Harvard; nor would the formation of an Oratorical Association imply that it was deficient, it would rather be a valuable coadjutant. So, with all deference to the fully competent and exceptional instruction provided for the students of Harvard, it would seem advisable to incorporate an acknowled advantage of her humbler sisters...
...attention to the remarks of the instructor, he should, at least, keep quiet, that those about him may not be disturbed. We believe that no one would willingly disturb his instructor or fellow-students, and make these remarks in order to recommend more thoughtfulness in the matter than seem to have existed heretofore...