Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of Williams are getting up an excursion to Boston for the Thanksgiving recess. "It will furnish," says the Argo, "a fine opportunity to visit the 'Hub of the Universe,' with its numerous attractions in the shape of libraries, art museums, theatres, etc., etc., and also offering a fine chance to visit our sister college at Cambridge." The students of Harvard will be very glad to welcome the students of Williams, if they will come...
...them. The influence of Harvard induced Columbia, Princeton and the College of the City of New York to organize teams and form an association. Yale, Amherst and other colleges have taken up the sport, which bids fair to have a bright future. Feeders to college teams in the shape of lacrosse clubs at the preparatory schools will prove of value in entering the field ready for play instead of being obliged to develop a team from crude material. In every college and school there are those who, not interested in base-ball and other sports, are attracted by lacrosse...
...above all don't say "mash" unless you can count up twenty-five, and can bring good proof for each one in the shape of painted tambourines and wall-banners. - [Yale News...
...following criticism is made on the Harvard crew: "Mr. Bancroft deserves the greatest credit for turning out the crew in such shape. The men who occupy the last four thwarts are as perfect a rowing four in style, time and swing as ever sat in any American college eight, and it is only in front of these that individual faults are to be found which mar the perfect uniformity and symmetry of the crew. Captain Hammond, who rows at No. 4. carries his oar up too high at the end of his feather and misses the first part...
...valuable addition to the Amherst College art gallery has been recently received, in the shape of two rare casts. One is Michael Angelo's "II Penseroso," and is the only cast of the statue in America. The other is the "Sleeping Ariadne," the original of which is in the Vatican...