Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last two seasons. Men with mediocre physical qualifications have developed into intercollegiate point winners. As the track team never has had at its disposal an abundance of field event material, more men with will-power and a desire to be athletic should specialize in some department. Though awkward at first, they will meet competition of their own standard, which may succeed in holding their interest. For a victory over Yale this year an effective balance of field event men is imperative...
...deal of interesting news as well as some sound thought. Mr. Izard's notes on the D. U. Production of "Henry IV" is learned and perhaps necessarily long. But the article on "Minor Sports--and Sportsmanship," by a native Greek, "the strongest man at the University of Pennsylvania," is awkward in expression. Mr. Dorizas, though the strong man at Penn., is a weak one with the pen; he seems to have something worth saying, but naturally he is not yet a master of English, and his ideas would be more readable were they transcribed and assorted by an interviewer...
...Awkward and only ordinary English may be an obstacle to true enjoyment of the Illustrated until that magazine sees the egregious folly of publishing material because of the fame of the writer--not fame as a writer, but fame as an athlete or something else as diametrically opposed to skill with the quill. If the journalistic tendencies of the Illustrated prompt the display of well-known names, then let men who can write well interview the well-known names, but do not force the well-known names to do themselves an injustice by sand-bagging the President's English...
...disastrous results. His Sonnet (the form should not be divided like a Petrarcan sonnet, into octet and sestet) is a rash venture into archaic realms. Mr. Sanger's "Children's Land," faintly reminiscent of the song that thrilled the Brushwood Boy, is mildly pleasing though not distinguished. An occasional awkward line mars the smoothness of its metre. "Awakening," by Mr. Cram, wherein
...inducement; particular excellence of instruction is merely an added desideratum. The foreigner here, like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would really be gaining what he came for if he could count a circle of American friends, with whom he might to some extent at least participate in ordinary social intercourse...