Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very inhospitable manner, and much regret was expressed among those who attended their excellent concert. But matters reached a crisis when a scathing article on their cold reception at Wellesley appeared in the Harvard CRIMSON. It was no doubt just, but slightly inconsiderate. The Sodality do not seem to remember that they came, not on the invitation of the college, but on that of the Tennis Association, and that a very limited number of this association, without consulting its officers or revealing their plans to any one, took the management of the concert into their own hands, and caused that...
...routine of college work has begun and the men have settled down after the Christmas recess, the various athletic teams are being talked about, and the base-ball men have begun to practice as much as possible in the gymnasium. The cage has not been finished yet and it seems doubtful at present whether it will be ready for use for some time, though it was expected that practice could begin there immediately upon the re opening of college. A rather erroneous opinion of Princeton's prospects for a nine seem to have become current, and one much too favorable...
...There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature...
...high, but dry, and, being what is practically virgin soil, is free from any suspicion of the malaria that infects the older and lower parts of the town. Yet it has an abundant supply of water, for the Aqeduct of Hydrian flows past the door. All the sanitary conditions seem to be of the best...
This late-in-the-day clipping is worthy of publication for its ludicrous statement: "While 3000 people witnessed the Wesleyan-Pennsylvania foot-ball game on Thanksgiving morning, in New York, only 1800 were at the Yale-Harvard game in the afternoon. It would seem that Gothamites prefer a good dinner to foot-ball.- Campus...