Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interested in the play, and our so doing merits no very severe criticism-and yet time and time again it is a decided hindrance to the men in their work, considerably hampering them in their freedom of motion. A little thoughtfulness in the matter can not be amiss, and that we may act consistently with our own expressions of enthusiasm, we must pay a little attention even to these matters of seeming minor importance. Not an obstacle should be left standing in the march of our eleven toward success...
...will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...
...which went to England three summers ago, as well as several other well-known players. The Harvard eleven should receive some support from the college to aid them in playing an up-hill game, and certainly the encouragement always infused in a team by cheering would not come in amiss...
...article Harvard is sure to win, while Yale has no chance at all. Now we have sufficient faith in the officers of the H. A. A. to know that they are not likely to be taken in by such reports, but nevertheless a word of warning will not be amiss. We all know the old cry which goes up every year to the effect that the Yale crew or the Yale nine has no chance at all; but we also know that Harvard has to strain every muscle to win a victory over the boys in blue. Such words...
...appropriated by women. Those of large experience are much smaller in number, but the chances are increasing. The prizes of considerable moment, as in most professions, are not many in number. The requirements are very various, and, as a rule, it may be stated that no knowledge comes amiss to a librarian. The preferable knowledge depends wholly upon the kind of library he is to control and the sort of people to whom he is to minister. In general terms, I should say that in fitting one's self for work in a miscellaneous library the best thing...