Word: amateurish
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...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...
...acting as a whole was remarkably good; and less amateurish than one has a right to expect of undergraduates. The few lapses into awkwardness of manner or speech served chiefly to make conspicuous the astonishingly high degree of genuineness and ease. I hope one may say without arrogance that the few defects seemed more often to be in the play than the players. And at that the play is a good...
...longer hours and more persistent hard work to get elected to its board than to win almost any other distinction in the College. Let it not be forgotten that although its standards may not be as high as they should, yet the standard is faithfully maintained on a not amateurish basis. The CRIMSON indeed gladly welcomes friendly criticism from editors and outsiders alike. But from a wholesale avalanche of reasonable and chimerical abuse it can perhaps defend itself best in the words of the dramatist...