Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were easily defeated by a score of 21 to 4, - a defeat more severe than the Harvard Nine has ever suffered from our old opponents. The game was won not so much by errors on our side as by the heavy batting of Yale. Shattuck's delivery did not seem to present any difficulty to the Yale Nine, and the ball was pounded all over the field. Our batting was by no means weak, ten hits being made off Lamb, but these were scattered; and the beautiful fielding of Yale prevented runs being made, even when the bases were filled...
...literary monthlies seem to be universally reverenced by the "college press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying...
...advantages of their rightful position, the last. The reason why the last place should be deemed the better is probably because the judges are believed to be less critical towards the end of the speaking than at the beginning. The change, however, is not so unfair as it may seem. The present Junior class will have their turn at last place next year; no one is placed under a disadvantage, the only fault being that this advantage, if it be one, will have been given twice to the present Senior class. But it may be doubted whether this last place...
...Thursday evening at half past seven, in Sanders Theatre. Thirty-six candidates presented themselves at the preliminary trial on Saturday. Of these, twenty, the same number as last year, were chosen, - eight out of fifteen Juniors, twelve out of twenty-one Seniors. As we said last year, it would seem fairer if the selection at the preliminary trial were made by more than one person; still it is of course impossible for every one to be satisfied in a matter of this kind. The speeches are limited to five minutes, so that the decisions may be expected by half past...
...glancing over the list of best records at Harvard, it seems extremely probable that, with the inducement offered in the Echo Prize Medal, several of them will be bettered at the approaching Spring Meeting; and as, however wisely the judges may decide, it would be difficult to give a correct decision as to the respective merits of a man who happened to "break" the record in the Mile Run, for example, and one who secured the Running High Jump, it would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem...