Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always appealed strongly to collegians and college-bred men. It is then of peculiar interest to college men to witness the controversy that it now going on about the criticism which has just been pronounced on Mr. Emerson by a man almost equally famous, Mr. Matthew Arnold. It would seem as if a great number of Emerson's countrymen were unaware of the esteem and appreciation in which they held him, until they imagined an attempt was being made to lower him from his lofty place. Since then, nothing that could be said has been too extravagant to be uttered...
...arranged between college teams, but we must be contented for the present with keeping alive what little interest there is, without endangering the whole project by trying to do too much. As to admitting graduates to the college clubs on an equal footing with the students, it would seem that this course has little to commend it, for it would be hardly just to allow older and more experienced shots to compete with men who are getting their first training during their college course. Moreover, graduates of a college might with as much justice be allowed to form a part...
Each college seems to vie with the others in its strivings after idiocy in compounding its private cheer. All of their cheers begin with the "rah, rah, rah," and are distinguished from one another by different additions. The students of Columbia repeat each letter of the name of their college, and seem to think they have done well in convincing those who hear their revolting cheet that they can spell at least one word correctly. The Williams students finish their cheer with the words "Willyums, yams, yums," and the students...
...almost imagine that a man might safely choose his college from its cheer. so indicative are they all of the character of student life in the several colleges. Whatever may be one's outside opinion, however, once in his own college cheer of course will seem the best; and for example, to a Yale man all other college cheers can but appear but as poor parodies and weak chaff, as to a Harvard man, they appear as interesting types and pleasant follies. But of this we no doubt shall hear more anon...
...crew men, and trust to weight to carry the ball beyond our opponents' goal line. No one doubts that the factor of weight is not to be despised but it is certainly powerless in the game as played today, unless coupled with skill and intelligence. This may at first seem a truism, but those to whom it appears as such, indicate their ignorance of what the last two qualities may be made to signify in foot-ball. And this brings us to our point. We venture to assert that to the average foot-ball player, the scientific possibilities...