Word: crude
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frank Gilbert Atwood, '78, has been a familiar by-word to every Harvard man since he was in college. This well deserved notoriety is due to the clever series of illustrations which have come from his pencil, beginning with his work in the Lampoon, which will always be popular. Crude in their style and faulty in their execution and showing a hand still untrained, these sketches are full of life and meaning. Every little line of the face conveys some definite idea and is as expressive as the maturer production of later years, showing an in-born talent for portraiture...
...leaving him to help himself as best he could. He often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that...
...foot-ball, and a had hack now is an exceptional circumstance. The game in fact-whether Rugby or Association-has undergone a complete metamorphosis. "Passing" the ball was a practice utterly unknown ; the art of "packing" a scrimmage was in its infancy ; the laws of "off-side" were crude and unsatisfactory. So also with the Association game, "middling," "corner kicks," "head play" were not known ; the men played where they liked, and there was little or none of that organization of the field which is now deemed absolutely necessary in order to ensure success...
...making this assertion? Mr. Arnold, if I remember rightly, said that Emerson could not be reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests, of originality is suggestiveness. And it is originality in any department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover...
...other colleges have taken up the sport, which bids fair to have a bright future. Feeders to college teams in the shape of lacrosse clubs at the preparatory schools will prove of value in entering the field ready for play instead of being obliged to develop a team from crude material. In every college and school there are those who, not interested in base-ball and other sports, are attracted by lacrosse. As matters now look, Harvard will have a strong team this year, and will endeavor to maintain its superiority in the college association. The colleges that will probably...