Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxfords are said to have rowed the race in splendid style. As the high floods on the Isis had made coaching from the shore impossible, the crew had to labor under a great disadvantage, which they seem, however, to have overcome. The odds before the race were seven to two in favor of Cambridge, the largest that have been given on a losing crew...
...only the facts, however, but also general considerations, make progress seem an insignificant thing. For, whatever we say, progress is either transient, or else being eternal, it has not as yet been able to remove evil from the world; and there is thus no evidence that an infinity of progress in the future would do what a past eternity has not done. In the nature of the world, then, evil is grounded. We must not turn to progress to find that which can remove evil...
...judge, this change should be a wise one. A college of the size and importance of Princeton certainly needs something more than a fortnightly publication, and the well known excellence and enterprise of the Princetonian in the departments of college news and of editorial discussions would seem to assure it success in its new venture...
Third round. - Again the fighting was hard, and aroused intense enthusiasm. Smith did better than in the preceding round, but still did not seem a match for his sturdy antagonist...
...first of the winter athletic meetings comes off this afternoon. A large part of the programme is given to "the noble art of self-defence," an art, however, that does not seem to be appreciated by the audiences at our athletic meetings. For the last few years, at least, the audiences at the meetings seem to have desired the boxer to confine himself to self-defence and at most only to hit his opponent when he approached dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been...