Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman nine lost a ten inning game to Groton last Saturday at Groton, by the score of 4 to 3. The defeat was the result of ragged fielding and weak batting at critical times. Groton won the game in the tenth because of an awkward collision between Rockwell and Carpenter, which let in two runs...
...recover, and he slumps at the finish. Snite is rowing too short a stroke, and fails to get his oar near the water at the catch. Brownell is doing very well, but has some difficulty in keeping the stroke long. Ayer is ragged in his blade work and somewhat awkward. Davis feathers under water, and clips badly. Loud has Snite's fault of failing to get his oar near the water at the catch, and he swings too far back at the finish. Emory is very effective, but awkward. Blake, Foster and Smith all seem to lack a strong finish...
...does not look his part at all; in fact, he does not look by any means as old as his younger brother; his delivery is also poor. The part of Andrew, his servant, is very well acted by J. G. Brackett '01, who gives an amusing portrayal of the awkward but well meaning servitor. The women in the play are not as good as the men; perhaps Sylvia, H. W. French '01, is a bit less unnatural than her mistress, Angelina, whose part is taken...
...verse is varying in its quality. "Self-Pity" by F. C. Gulick is an introspective sonnet which loses much by the obscurity of its symbolism and a bit of awkward phrasing. In "To a Stuffed Owl" and in "The Interval," W. Bynner has shown his versatility. "What the Sea Shell Told" is a pleasing bit of rhyme, but has no claim to originality of thought or treatment...
Pieper is awkward and slow in the field, but may learn to bat well...