Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though at first the prospects were very encouraging, the work of the team has lately been rather poor. The backs and interference seem slow in starting and do not strike the line with any force. However, the personnel of the team is quite strong and their showing would seem to depend on their success in getting well together in the team play...
Perhaps there is no reproach which has been more constantly cast in the teeth of Harvard men than that of favoritism in the selection of athletic teams. Newspapers are eager for sensation, unsuccessful candidates are apt to blame anything but themselves; and people seem somehow to forget that a coach's or a captain's reputation depends on his using the best men available...
...communication which we publish today, in regard to the plan of organizing class debating clubs implies two or three points which seem to us incorrect. Our position is, that debating is not given full opportunity for development, and that some change of system is necessary. As the best suggestion for improvement we point to the Freshman Club and would have similar clubs established in the other classes. Our correspondent thinks on the contrary that there is no field for further development of debating activity and that the lack of success of the Union and the Forum...
...vacant, and we suggest that if the men will sit farther forward it will not only make it much easier to address them, but is will also infuse an air of greater cordiality into the reception accorded to the clergymen who come to us as strangers. The attention may seem trivial but we think it would be appreciated...
...reasons of coaching it is necessary to cut down the Freshman squad or to separate it into two divisions, one of about two elevens made up of those men who at present seem most available, the other of lighter, less experienced men who might well be developing for another year. In order to encourage dividing the squad rather than putting the extramaterial out of training the football management have already announced that cups will be given to the champion eleven of this inter-freshman consolation series and that each contesting will be provided with a coach from...