Word: amateurish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Silent Witness" is reviewed competently, and the number closes with a poem by Mr. Gazzam, which is evidently inspired, but unfortunately amateurish in execution...
...Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem sound perfectly smooth and unforced. "Sunset," by Mr. Damon, is a brief impression. "To a Child," by Mr. Code has at times an amateurish ring. Nevertheless Mr. Code goes a great way in expressing the typical charm of a child--and it is often these simplest things that are hardest to express...
...outstanding characteristic of modern civilization is the ever increasing use of the intensive scientific method; while the most striking single feature of the present war is the universal vagueness as to the issues involved and the amateurish nature of discussion as to the means of settlement...
...essay on Strindberg, Schonberg, and Sibelius is praisworthy as an attempt to relate the arts, and also to help the reader to appreciate two ultra-modern composers, both of whom deserve enthusiasm. But this method of treatment, although conventional, is so frankly subjective that it seems ultra fantastic and amateurish. It is nevertheless interesting to those who received impressions of the music totally different from those expressed by Mr. Damon here. It is stimulating in that it is entirely subjective; but one must always remember that it is Mr. Damon who is speaking and not Schonberg, Strindberg, or Sibelius...
Bates was not a stiff enough opponent, however, to show up the weak spots in the eleven. The northerners bore little resemblance to the scrappy team which faced Harvard last year, holding her to two touchdowns. The opponents were amateurish, imperfect in signals, and weak in the line. They could not gain consistently by either massed or open plays, and only three times held the ball on the Crimson side of the 50-yard line, never penetrating nearer than 25 yards. In the second quarter, time was called when Bates had just gotten into position for an attempt...