Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again met in New York with delegates present only from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Columbia, and after duly considering the hopeless situation of affairs has decided to leave the whole matter in statu quo, from which desperate strait each faculty is at liberty to rescue it as shall seem best...
...Harvard faculty has yet to consider this action and decide upon its course for the future. It seems quite probable that nothing will be done save to leave matters as they were last season with the prohibition against professionals still in force. This, it must be said, is a far more satisfactory state of affairs than would have been brought about by the impracticable set of regulations recently proposed. Yet it is a condition not altogether satisfactory. Harvard still lacks the services of a suitable director of field sports. If she had such a director the prohibition against employing...
...makes use of the library. Again and again have complaints been made that the books were being injured by interlinings, scorings, marginal notes, etc., and only a few weeks ago we had occasion to call attention to the outrageous misuse of a library book in this manner. There seems to be a set of literary vandals who feel it incumbent upon them to write as marginal notes whatever may occur to them on the perusal of a book, quite regardless of the fact that such notes are not only utterly worthless, but oftentimes very annoying to another. Of course every...
...second paper of Professor Richards, from which we give several of the more important abstracts, does not seem up to the first in originality of ideas, but is, nevertheless, of sufficient interest to attract notice. He says: "With regard to the evils of the present system of college athletics it must be remembered that the best system will not be free from all evil. That the present system has evils is no valid argument against it, unless it can be shown either that these outweigh the good, or that some other practical system can be devised which shall have...
Fifteen dollars per man would undoubtedly cover the whole cost of athletics at Yale throughout the year, counting all kinds. Certainly this does not seem an extravagant sum to pay for the benefits derived from the system. The writer believes that the expenses can be very much diminished. The tendency to unnecessary increase of expenses can certainly be diminished by measures heretofore noticed...