Word: amateurish
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...respect the club comes under Benchley's head of "the more or less serious." Its chief appeal is for undergraduates really alive to the possibilities of the drama rather than those who enjoy the publicity of the footlights. This new experiment is typical of its trend away from the amateurish toward the businesslike professional. It will be interesting to see with what success the club has been able to advance into this new field...
...Such reasoning is the result of the popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...
...subject must be brought down to his standard. Such reasoning is the result of the popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise...
...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...