Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would seem as if the time had certainly come when some change should be made in the method of choosing umpires for the annual football contests. It is time that men should be chosen who have no personal interest in the success of either contesting team or of any third team in the Assassin, or else men of sufficient age and experience to be able to divorce what small interest they might have from their action. To come directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised...
...Glee Club followed next with a group of two glees-"Courtship," by A. W. Thayer, and "The Happier Land," by Hatton. "Courtship" was sung with exquisite taste, and showed the long and patient work which doubtless had been given to it. The audience, however, did not seem to appreciate it as fully as they might have done...
...Again, the race with Harvard is toward the end of June, and if we trained our crew for a race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...
...informed that the freshman foot-ball management has met all its expenses and has funds on hand to the amount of four hundred and fifty dollars. It is for the class to decide what shall be done with this surplus, and it would seem that to no other purpose could it more profitably be devoted than to the support of the freshman crew. I believe it has been the custom of some of the classes in former years, to use any surplus which may remain after the foot-ball season had closed for the foundation of a class fund...
...students in the 1st year '88 sent 14. At a corresponding time '87 sent 18 and '86, a close second, sent 17. It would seem that the professional men in '88 chose the law rather than its sister profession...