Word: crude
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speeches as a whole showed careful preparation, though there were frequent instances of evidence weakly arranged. There was a commendable absence of the customary unsupported assertions, but the form of presentation was crude in nearly every instance. The speaking was too rapid and the enunciation so careless that in some instances the last word of every sentence was lost...
Shanks is quick but very crude and needs much practice in handling the ball...
...Advocate is well defined by its comparison with the other College publications: "The pages of the CRIMSON," the writer says, "are interesting as a literal record of facts that concern us; the pages of the Lampoon, as a warped reflection of such facts, as satire, which, though often crude, is based on fact. The Advocate has a more difficult role to perform; avoiding literalness on the one hand and exaggeration on the other, it must utilize this same material of fact and make it interesting...
...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...Harvard speakers, W. T. Foster, D. C. Hirsch, and W. Catchings excelled in analysis of the question and in rebuttal. The Boston University speakers, R. H. Newcomb, I. M. Huggan, and W. H. Dow, Jr., failed to present a consistant case, while their rebuttal was ragged and their form crude. There was far more assertion than proof in the Boston University case, but its principal points were: That the United States should maintain the integrity of China to secure the payment of the Chinese indemnity, and because disruption would be a serious blow to Democracy...