Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result is an awkward hesitancy on both sides which is apt soon to be turned into a careless disregard. It is not right that such men as President Eliot, Professors Norton, Child, Goodwin, Lane and Whitney, and the distinguished preachers to the University should pass about among Harvard men with only an occasional recognition. Such men deserve to receive every mark of respect...
...Sleeper sits up very straight, but is stiff and awkward. He does not face his oar, and is slow in getting it in the water. He bends his arms before his legs are down, and does not get any drive at all to the stroke. He rows shorter than any other man in the boat...
...educational advantages which cannot be found elsewhere. Yet the practical objections to the adoption of this ideal justice are great, and few would care to meet them. The growth of Radcliffe along the lines which it is taking promises a happy solution of the difficulty; it will avoid awkward arrangements and yet will open to women practically all the advantages open to men at Harvard. Organized on the same plan, offering largely the same courses, taught largely by the same corps of instructors, it will make any call for co-education in Harvard unnecessary. The relations of the two institutions...
...stiff and awkward and gets his oar caught at his body...
...outlook for the junior crew is not very bright. Nearly all of last year's winning eight are working with the varsity. Some of the new men who have come out look big and strong but as a rule they are awkward and do not seem to take to the work naturally. Briggs, Stackpole, and Davis have done most of the coaching...