Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects for the two relay teams do not seem very encouraging at first, as few veterans will be able to run, but new material of a high order may be developed during the next few months. Of last year's 390-yard team W. H. Fernold '12 and D. P. Ranney '12 are still in College, but the latter will probably be unable to run because of a strained tendon. Of the candidate for the three places thus left vacant, W. A. Barron, Jr., '14, K. S. Billing '12, A. J. de Gozzaldi '14, F. J. O'Brien...
...well bear the palm before more worthy rivals. But we had thought the reproach attaching to prize poems spent chiefly upon this very occasional quality of theirs! The subjects proposed are certainly of timely interest, and for that reason they may tap a genuine enthusiasm somewhere; but it would seem that the purpose of the class of '88 might be served with more assurance of success were these more catholic in range. And the undergraduate mind discovers no reason why, so far as subject matter goes, the Garrison Prize should not be administered after the fashion of the Bowdoin Prizes...
...transformation of teams from losing teams to victorious teams, and vice versa, even the ball finally began to take part in the extraordinary happenings, and on one day, namely, the day of the Princeton-Dartmouth and Andover-Exeter games, in each of which games the ball performed what would seem to be a miracle, namely, running along the ground for a considerable distance and then bounding up over the crossbar. Then, too, the favorites in a very great proportion of the important games were returned eventually as the losers; nor was there any consistency about these upsets, but they came...
...investigated for himself, or he has never been a man at all. "Unfaith" is too often the synonym of "don't want to" and not "can't." Dr. Grenfell showed how many of the noblest things in life must be taken as such on faith, even those things which seem entirely unreasonable. In this connection he cited numerous examples from his Labrador experiences with fishermen,--rough, brutal men, opposed to all that was harmonious in life, whose lives had been completely changed by their faith in Christ. Today men stigmatize as fanatics even those who are benefited by their faith...
...games played in previous years Battery A has won four and two have been tied; but this year the Cadets seem to have a good chance of winning...