Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deal of athletic practice and training, but we fail to find any pictorial or tablet records of them, except in one or two cases. All the events peculiar to in-door athletics, which have been so interesting and important a feature annually, under the auspices of the Athletic Association, seem to be almost entirely neglected in its records. A photographic group of the winners, as suggested, could be easily arranged for, and would serve to recall many pleasant memories...
...York Times grows facetions over the matter of college "jokes." They are all, it says, of immemorial age, and are clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate...
From a brief survey of the base-ball arena, it would seem that the college contest of '82 would be the most closely contested ever known. Every nine is in training, and each will appear on the field with a new pitcher. - [Brunonian...
...that Harvard should have a professorship of Egyptology. The foundation of a professorship of archaeology would, perhaps, be more timely at present, and more to be desired. The University of Pennsylvania has such a professorship; and, in the notable revival in classical and antiquarian studies at Harvard, it would seem that the establishment of a permanent chair in archaeology here would be an especially appropriate outcome of this increased interest. Such a professorship would add greatly to the advantages offered by Harvard for post-graduate students, and in connection with the American Institute of Archaeology its work could be made...
...York Mail and Express devotes some of its valuable space to "College Chips," from which we learn that belligerent college students seem to be unpleasantly numerous just now; that students of the University of Pennsylvania are very important young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents...