Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenses with receipts from gate money, and not to rely upon subscriptions; it was found impossible to do this wholly without subscriptions, but the treasurer collected of the amount subscribed only such a portion as should pull the association through the year free from debt. It did not seem necessary to lay up a balance in the bank after foot-ball had been forbidden by the faculty...
...impression seems to be slowly gaining ground among the students that the proposed fall class races were too hastily determined upon, and that action was taken in the matter before it had been sufficiently discussed in all its bearing. Certain remarks let fall by those interested in foot-ball would seem to indicate that the scheme can hardly hope to meet with very hearty support from that quarter, while some of the men who are prominent in rowing affairs fail to exhibit any very enthusiastic appreciation of the new departure. The fact is that many valuable men will be kept...
...cold weather does not seem to lessen the interest in tennis...
...report of the treasurer of the Foot-Ball Association showed a balance of $3 in the treasury. The chairman was instructed to appoint a committee of three, chosen irrespectively of classes, to have, with himself, full powers to make such arrangements as may seem to be in the best interests of foot-ball at Harvard this fall...
...government by the proclamation to the students of a code of rules declaring precisely the things which they can do. The other way is one that is founded upon the principle of liberty, and that is upon a presumption, which in a nation based upon the principle would seem to be not a very violent presumption, that liberty is the foundation of good government and that a university governed well must be governed in accordance with the principles of liberty. This university wisely has not very many rules. I do not know that I would have more than one rule...