Word: casual
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pegs," round or square, Mr. Davis hangs the fatalistic philosophy that animates his story. It is an apparently casual performance, behind which the reader detects a growing intensity and point...
Finding it impossible to believe that such a casual attitude could exist concerning one of the major sports at Harvard, I made it a point to raise the subject among other men during the day. My astonishment increased when I found that similar opinions are held by others, whose loyalty and pride for the University I had never before questioned...
...order, its classic style is more easily assimilable. Here again the orchestra played with a rhythmic incesiveness and excellent ensemble. Handel's Concerto imposes a difficult task even upon well disciplined strings, and that the Pierian succeeded in giving so substantial a proportion of the qualities of this rather casual music redounds to its credit. While some of the tempi might be open to credit, the interpretation was none the less eminently Handelian...
...most casual examination of the University's record in track during the past few years will serve to show that something is radically wrong. Last year, its position in the Intercollegiate Meet was seventh, to which record may be added a defeat by Yale. Nor are prospects this year much more promising. The team has been crippled by the unexpected loss of several of its best men. Some of this can be laid to bad luck, but by no means all of it. Something is fundamentally wrong; something which only a radical change can correct...
...agree most heartily with Senator Hollis that the University should keep in close touch with the world without its, gates, particularly in a political way. Evidently, however, he does not realize how great the progress toward this has been. We Would like to call his attention to a few casual examples of labor in outside fields by members of the Faculty-to the work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work...