Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which was kicked from the field by Mason. The play of our team has been materially improved since their last match, and the spectators were much pleased by the game. The catching and kicking of the half-backs is still rather weak, however, and some of the men still seem disinclined to fall on the ball. The best playing for Harvard was done by Mason, Kendall and Ayres; for the Techs, by Haines, who made several very fine rushes in the last part of the game...
...asks an explanation of the Harvard custom of anonymous college journalism. "The publications," he says, "of Yale, Princeton, Tufts, Dartmouth, Vassar, Brown, Trinity, Technology of Boston, and many others which do not now occur to me, all give the names of their editors in the heading, and it would seem that Harvard is the only exception...
...question why this is so, we can only answer that so far as we are aware this custom has always existed at Harvard, and it does not seem probable that it will change. The names of the editors of Harvard papers are, however, usually published at either the end or beginning of each volume issued, and they also appear annually in the Harvard Index. The custom certainly has its advantages; and undoubtedly it is in accordance with the general sentiment of the college in such matters...
...necessity for and wisdom of so stringent a rule, there can be no doubt that it will be a benefit in checking entirely any tendency towards professionalism that might hereafter arise in our athletics. The regulation in regard to trainers is equally strict and severe - arbitrarily so it may seem to many. The third rule is but putting into the form of a formal regulation what has long been the practice in regard to candidates for the various crews and clubs of the college. The fourth rule, requiring ability to swim from all members of the crews, is eminently proper...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD; Allow me to answer some questions that seem to rise in many minds apropos of the article on Memorial Hall in the last number of the Advocate. There was not "on Monday evening any supply of food unfit to be eaten found on the point of being cooked." Neither was there a discovery of food of any description, cooked or uncooked, that was at all in the nature of a "revelation," and most certainly not a "disgusting revelation." On account of no such "revelation," then, is Mr. Balch "an unfit man to be entrusted with the management...