Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear of professionalism has certainly reduced the faculty to a pitiable position. It may seem professional to try to make a nine self-supporting instead of a burden upon the pockets of men who already have enough demands for subscriptions to answer, but it is a sort of professionalism we can not help approving...
This is emphatic enough surely, and would seem to indicate a very sad state of affairs at Cornell. The lesson of wholesome moderation, we take it, is again enforced by all these doings...
...heartily the endeavors of the association. By the new arrangement our tennis affairs can be brought into a systematic form this spring, and next fall the association can start on a firm basis. The rules for the tenure of courts can then be perfected and any new measures that seem advisable can be introduced...
...shared by its leading members, that the students themselves are really opposed to the project, although many of them do not see fit to express their sentiments on the question. Many of these reasons appear to have some foundation in the nature of the case; but it does not seem to us that, taking all the facts into consideration, they are strong enough, whether taken separately or together, to justify the abandonment of the plan as first proposed of building a fence. The number of students who stay outside to see a game is very small...
...publish this morning the rules adopted by the Tennis Association in regard to the tenure of courts. They seem to be well considered and will certainly prove a great improvement over the present state of things. The tennis players in college should do all in their power to assist the association in their laudable endeavor...