Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard and Yale are endeavoring to get each others views on the new pitcher's rules adopted by the league, so that their pitchers can train according to the rules which will be adopted by the convention. It would seem, that there was no great need of a convention," says the Student...
...would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought...
...seems almost absurd to make any appeal to the college to support the Harvard Advocate, but from recent developments it would seem that the oldest representative of Harvard journalism is not meeting the support from the students which it richly deserves. Than the number of its readers has decreased, we do not believe, for such a state of things could hardly be consistent with the improvement in the contents of the paper which this year has shown. For many men, it is to be feared, have fallen into the habit of dropping in on some friend who takes the Advocate...
Henry George, who was a passenger on the Alaska, and feared at one time that he would never again see any land to divide according to his principle of political economy, says that the "only thing that was any likelihood of running short in was lager beer," which would seem to show that great minds may descend to the consideration of small subjects, even in the midst of great perils...
...that the boating interest at Brown University occupied a prominent position among the other recognized sports. Lately, however, the record of the Brown crew has become somewhat obscure. In fact, the only branch of athletics to which the Rhode Island college has given strong support is base-ball. It seems, however, that an effort is to be made to restore rowing to its old position of prominence, and the following clipping from the Brunonian would seem to show that this effort bids fair to attain success...