Word: creep
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ideas; in two cases at least subjects of importance are broached, on which undergraduate opinion just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed, without revision, to creep into print. Under such circum stances the business of the reviewer is all too tame, for he must point out blunders which the writers themselves might easily have rectified...
...this way for a mile and a half the two eights side by side fought up the Severn against tide and wind. Occasionally, the Annapolis crew would creep up on the Weld, and then a short spurt by the latter would again leave them them eight or ten feet behind. Throughout, the Naval Academy crew rowed several points higher than the Weld, but at no time did they lead...
...whole case, so that you may judge his work on its real merits. The graduate coaches complain of this as heartily as you or 1. The fact means simply that intense competition with victory ahead requires constant vigilance if some of the past evils of athletics are not to creep into this intellectual sport. It is, then, I believe, not to course which exist mainly to train intercollegiate debaters, but in courses which train youths to think seriously on questions of the day, striving to get at the heart of them, and to present the results of their thinking clearly...