Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Canoe Club burgee has arrived and gives general satisfaction. It is triangular in shape, and is made of crimson silk, on which is a gold shield surrounded by a circle. On the shield is painted in ivory black a large...
...boats have developed into very different looking craft. Outriggers, sliding seats, self-acting rowlocks and steering sails, have all been successfully added, with divers other refinements of the boatbuilder's art; but the science of rowing remains after all, essentially the same, and the same bodily shape and muscular conformation are still usually to be observed in the most successful oarsmen. If we could confine our attention solely to the great clubs and the two universities, there would be little cause for finding fault with amateur sculling or rowing. Unfortunately, the prospect is by no means so limited...
...this spring, all that those of us who wish to play tennis can do, apparently, is to bide our time and make the best of the few courts that will be open. When once the matter is settled, both tennis and lacrosse players will find themselves in better shape than formerly, but until it is finally closed, we must all have patience. We are sure that the athletic committee will give both of the games a perfectly fair showing, and that the matter can be safely entrusted to their hands...
...ever sees one of these shaggy-headed sprites wending his way about the college. But with the white blossoms of spring and the first baseball game he somes in all his glory. To be sure some few symptoms of him can be seen generally before this time, in the shape of wild blasphemies around sundry games of marbles in a corner of the yard, but it is not until the spring fairly opens that he is here in force. Then he seems to come all at once with a whoop and a yell. Whence he comes, and whither he goes...
...college nines having practice-games with professional nines on their own college grounds; but when the amateurs go out of their way to benefit their club pecuniarily by arranging matches on professional grounds, as was done in this city, Philadelphia and Boston last April, the matter assumes a different shape, and presents good reasons for the objection made by the faculty to its continuance...