Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale men, on the other hand, did not seem to have divided up their ground definitely. They also failed to remove benefiting but minor considerations. For this reason it was difficult to grasp their main argument...
...been their prevailing regard for gentlemanly conduct,- their almost universal courtesy. We have been charged with snobbishness and indifference, but even our enemies have conceded to us a general respect for outward decorum, and abhorrence of boyish and "Kiddish" conduct. During the present year many things have happened which seem to show that we are in danger of losing our former high reputation. Such acts as the painting of the Fogg Museum, and the explosions at the lecture last Wednesday evening, would have seemed incredible at Harvard two or three years...
...next Saturday the Harvard and Pennsylvania track teams will contest in dual games on Franklin Field at Philadelphia. As Pennsylvania defeated Harvard at the Mott Haven games last year, the contest should be very exciting and it will probably be fairly close, although Harvard's chances of winning seem rather better than Pennsylvania's. Both teams are stronger than usual and good records are expected in all the events. A conservative estimate gives Harvard 62 points to Pennsylvanis's 50. Harvard should win the hundred with Roche, Bigelow and Redpath, all of whom are good...
...play is well worth going to see, being a decided improvement over last year's performance. The plot is good, but it is worked out in the conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...well as in the shot put. Ellery Clarke has also entered these events besides the high and broad jump. The team races are always attractive and the two on today's programme should be well contested, although the English High team in the interscholastic, and Yale in the intercollegiate seem to stand rather the best chance...