Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This ignoring of girls is a curious phase in the development of the masculine mind. There would almost seem to be a polaric relation between the sexes; a magnetic attraction or repulsion, which varies with different ages as a magnet itself varies with the spots on the sun. Thus, from infancy to youth, boys run away from girls. From youth to marriage, girls run away from boys. After marriage, they run away from each other...
...experiment of holding a fall freshman athletic meeting which the executive committee propose to try this autumn, would seem to be an excellent one and worthy of success. Success it will certainly secure if the freshman class evince enough class spirit and enterprise to enter a number of contestants sufficient to make the games of interest and to accomplish their ultimate object - that of bringing out men for succeeding 'Varsity days. The freshmen should respond to this offer and prove the experiment worthy of continuance in future years...
...past year an unusually large number of volumes have been published from the hands of undergraduates and recent graduates, and of these Harvard has furnished her full share. It is not noticeable, we fear, that these volumes have any of them been of exceptional ability, but nevertheless they would seem to mark a renewed tendency among college men towards the profession of literature. "Forever and a Day," the recently published "Guerndale," "Sly Ballades in Harvard China," and the various sketches reprinted from the Lampoon, will be familiar examples of this class of literature to Harvard ears. Joined with this tendency...
...members of the crew seem to have little to say about Harvard's crawl. It seems to be too much for them. [Acta Columbiana.] Perhaps other good reasons exist for their silence...
...consideration. Rowing is certainly an exercise that many would gladly participate in if only an opportunity were offered; as it is now there is little if any chance for its practice among us. It is almost certain that no private enterprise will afford this chance; and therefore it would seem to devolve upon the boat club almost as a duty to provide means for this admirable recreation and exercise...