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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days stop a kick. and are so eager to get down the fiord that they do not protect the halfbacks sufficiently for the kick. In lining up to put the ball in play they are in general above reproach, but at times, especially after a hard run. they seem disposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/7/1884 | See Source »

Question if the advertisers do not err in sending around their cards at such an unearthly hour as 8 o'clock in the morning. They thereby, it would seem, defeat their own ends. We are met in corners and in doorways, and cards and bills are thrust into our faces. Complimentary tickets are at our plates at meals. Samples from new newspapers to "choice cigarettes" are put into our hands. Scarcely a day passes that we are not in some way reminded of some branch or other, small and great, of Cambridge or Boston business. Our mails are, perhaps, nearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our University in a Worldly Point of View. | 11/5/1884 | See Source »

...hops given by the students of Lehigh University, do not seem to be very popular among the Bethlehem young ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/4/1884 | See Source »

...with pleasure that we pass from the above discouraging subject to that of the freshman game with Andover. '88 seem to have acquitted themselves so far on the foot ball field with considerable credit. Their game with Adams, although against a very weak eleven, showed that they knew how to work together and to work quickly as so large a score as 69 does not admit of much dilly-dallying. The Andover game was played against worthy opponents who, all confess, played a good game. The better playing of the '88 men alone carried them to victory. Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

...lower classes no longer exists; generous rivalry has taken its place. Why, then keep up the form of a rush, if the spirit is gone? If a branch of a tree is dead, we lop it off. For the same reason, a rush for which none of the participants seem very anxious, should be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

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