Word: crude
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only speaker. Although refusing to prophecy the score of the game Fish declared that the University team will probably close a successful season by defeating Yale next Saturday. In the West Point game the Yale team was composed of good material, but the team-play was decidedly crude. In the Princeton game, however, the work of the coaches was evident in an improved machine and a more highly polished team-play. Yale has been poor but has passed through the worst part of her season, and will be "coming" during the whole of the week, and it must be remembered...
Dormitory rowing has shown considerable improvement in the past week. The attendance has been more regular, and the orders of crews have not been changed as often as heretofore. The rowing of most of the crews is still crude, as many of them are composed almost entirely of inexperienced men. The number of men rowing this year is the largest since dormitory rowing was introduced, but the attendance has been very irregular at times. Yesterday twelve crews were on the river...
...Illustrated Magazine was lifted by Mr. Hans von Kaltenborn to an important place among college papers, and the present Editorial Board are holding it there. The April number is substantial and earnest. Much of it lacks literary finish; some of it is crude; but nearly all of it has the great merit of serious purpose--which covers a multitude of rhetorical sins. The leading article, Professor Meyer's speech on War and Civilization, is a remarkable presentation of doctrine abhorrent to many, and a masterly eulogy of war. Mr. Henderson's Harvard in Cambridge Politics, though poorly written, is worth...
...central thought of the pageant is derived from the custom of tree worship practiced by the ancients. Starting with the crude and superstitious worship of the early Norsemen, the practice is followed down through the ecclesiastical history of the various tribes and peoples that inhabited Europe before the time of Christ, and finally ends with the springing into life of our own Christmas tree. The program will be divided into two parts. In the first, groups of people representing the different nationalities of the ancient world will appear, each group carrying its national tree of life. Dancing and acting representing...