Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...form, and the team of '82 is by far the strongest they have yet placed in the field, while that of Harvard is not up to the mark of their '81 team. Yale is said to be much stronger in kicking than ever before, while the hopes of Harvard seem to have been placed on the rushing ability of their men. Experience has shown that while plucky tackling offsets the rushing of heavy weights, good kicking is not so easily got rid of, while a combination of first class kickers and fine strategic play in "passing" are the two principal...
Princeton's whole energies this year, according to the impressions of a visiting Yale man, seem bent on athletics. The class teams are all, from freshman to senior, hard at work, and they will make a desperate effort to beat Yale...
...nine from playing with professional teams. It is justice to say that college sentiment is divided as to the wisdom of such action, but the majority of the men feel that it is right. In regard to the position of the faculty, we believe they acted as to them seemed best. It is not strange, nor is it any act of discourtesy, that they did not accede to the proposition of the Harvard faculty. Circumstances are different in many respects in the two colleges, and what is thought necessary for the good of the college at Harvard may not seem...
...play Trinity, but the lateness of the season will probably prohibit any further negotiations this fall. Last spring we advocated the establishment of an intercollegiate tennis association, which should arrange matches between various colleges. Communications were sent to several colleges, but so many negative answers were received that it seemed that the time had not yet come, and the project was necessarily abandoned. We take this opportunity, when the enthusiasm of the game is still fresh, and when several months' space can be granted the tennis association to negotiate with the associations of other colleges, to advocate the project again...
...sufficient time before the close of the term for the committee to perfect its plans and finish its work; accordingly the undertaking was postponed, with the understanding, however, that it would be taken up again this fall. As yet the college has heard nothing of it. It certainly would seem to be high time for the committee to meet again and take active steps for the consummation of the project. As to the urgent need for a representative Harvard song book there can be no question. And it is certainly to be hoped that there is enough enterprise and talent...