Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have the faults in the recovery of not feathering their oars, and they pause too long at the inception of the stroke, as the oar is about to be struck...
...last of which was delivered last night, have aroused unwonted interest throughout the college. Professor Hadley has earned a reputation here for breadth of comprehension and clearness of insight which we feel is well deserved. Those who have attended the lectures have been unsparing in their praise, and only seem to regret that the series is now finished...
...begun so auspiciously for Harvard, it is fitting that we should consider now a restriction to which our nine has been lately subjected. Professional teams cannot be our adversaries on the diamond. The arguments used by our faculty in subjecting our nine to this handicap are well known, and seem sufficient to them; but if they should consider that old proverb, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and should ponder over the fact that professionals not only play better ball, but play ball in a more gentlemanly way than most amateur clubs, they might at least...
...Harvard nine has retrieved its good name, and wiped out, with an overwhelming victory, the defeat that it suffered a year ago from the hands of its opponents of Saturday. To recall the past may seem undesirable, but Harvard men can never forget the demonstrations of joy and the enthusiasm which was displayed a year ago, in the New York theatres and elsewhere, over the "whitewashing" given the Harvard champions on their own grounds, and, therefore, we cannot deem it unmannerly to hint that the account is now square, and to declare that Harvard is able to compete once more...
There are many games and athletic exercises that are practised now which although considered modern inventions were in a different form in use among the ancients. Even lawn tennis, the most fashionable of them all, and the one which more than any other seems to have taken a permanent hold on the people of this country, appears to be merely a variation of a form of ball played by the Romans; one great difference being that with them the ball had always to be returned before it struck the ground - in fact, "volleyed." There is no very definite description...