Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...something that unfortunately entered into the preliminary training that is now being gone through with. As a whole the playing was ragged and although but one error was made, that was inexcusable, and what should have been a double play, resulted in a single put-out through Laughlin's careless fielding...
Still more careless are such statements as that five crews were engaged in last year's boat race, that J. W. Hallowell 1901, played guard on his freshman eleven, that there are two deans of the Law School. Such a blunder as the substitution of three of the Weld crews for the corresponding class crews in the summary of the class races is absolutely unpardonable. Mistakes like these and the omission of the catalogue by buildings rob the Index of fully half its value...
...dainty little volume contains verses in a light vein, intended, as the author says, for busy people who have not the time to create fancies for themselves. If the purpose alone be considered, the book might be called successful. The verses are written in an offhand manner, with sometimes careless metre. The point usually turns on some modern "gag," but some of the verses touch a serious chord, while many have a note of sweetness...
...simply lying by after the season is over and growing flabby. When the season of their activity comes round once more it is not uncommon to find many in no sort of shape to take up their work again and simply through lack of what seems to the careless such a nonentity, a little regular exercise...
...could be no comparison-Harvard played with eleven men, Pennsylvania with an eleven. But for the individual work of Dibblee, Garrison and Parker, Harvard could never have scored; while in every score made by Pennsylvania it can justly be said that every man had a part. Harvard's slow, careless playing was taken advantage of by Pennsylvania many times...