Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nearly all of the men have played on some preparatory school eleven and this experience, together with the work they are doing here, ought to make their chances against the Yale freshmen seem very encouraging...
...members of the senior class do not seem to realize that this year is their last chance to win the class football championship, and that to make even a respectable showing there must be at least men enough to make up two elevens every day. Nothing is more demoralizing to the team than that there should be hardly men enough to form a single eleven. There can be no competition, and consequently no snap in the play. Worse, there can be no good practice, for a team cannot learn to play football by going through tricks and learning how they...
...convenience of the classes in developing exercises, two maps of the Gymnasium floor have been made and a regular place is assigned to each man. Some men seem to have made the mistake of thinking that because their names are not on the map they are not entitled to take part in the exercises. This is not the case. Places on the floor are reserved only until the whistle blows; after that any unoccupied place may be taken by the first comer...
There does not seem to be in general a clear idea of what these scratch races are for. They have been organized first of all for new men who have never rowed and who want to begin. All '98 men, especially, who expect to try for their class crew should enter, for they will be under the eye of the 'varsity management and receive the best of coaching...
...formal opening of the academic year this morning focuses attention for a moment on the numerical strength of the University. With the establishment of universities or at least of colleges in all parts of the country, it would seem that Harvard, situated in a remote corner of the land and distant from most of the great centres of population, must inevitably yield the students of distant states to their local institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western...