Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of the crews going out of training as soon as the new athletic regulations are officially announced is being seriously discussed. It does not seem likely that there can be a Yale race, but Harvard will have to forfeit the race since she did not declined to row next June before Christmas. At any rate it does not seem likely that a crew trained exclusively for a four mile race can be got in condition by next June for a three-mile contest...
...athletics, although the faculty have not yet done so and feel much hesitancy about so doing. We confess that we are not able to gather from this whether it is finally decided that the regulations will be enforced at Princeton or not. The regulation of sports in itself would seem to be a matter for faculty decision, but we presume that the board of trustees has a complete jurisdiction in the matter and can force action on the part of the faculty. Princeton's attitude is naturally of the most interest to Harvard since her action cannot fail to influence...
Surely when President Eliot's name is seen so often in the reports of the Civil Service Reform meetings and dinners, and not his only, but many of the overseers and of some of the faculty, it would seem that these gentlemen would be interested in doing something at home; and that if they really cared for the matter they would exercise some of their private influence, if not their public, where it might do so much good...
...restriction on the race is certainly one of doubtful wisdom. Boating authorities certainly do not agree upon the point, and for this reason its adoption was impolitic. It will seem to many that Harvard here again has sacrificed her interests to the demands of other colleges...
...many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...