Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason why they could not be printed in the same form as the pages of regular schoolbooks. As it is, the spaces following each player's name are so small that there is not room enough to score exactly the different points of the play. Only the crudest scoring can be readily done unless the spaces are properly marked. The slight increase in cost would still be covered if the present price of five cents were retained, and the convenience to interested spectators would be considerably increased, and as they would not always bring private books, but would buy cards...
...college man as a college man, seems to be altogether made up of "contests" of some sort; inter-collegiate athletic contests, oratorical contests, racing, and all sorts of rivalries with other colleges, are his very existence. But it is well known that a novice always has the crudest tastes, and it takes long to acquire refinement and the art of extracting delicate pleasure from quiet sports. It is admittedly so with yachting and canoeing. But a canoe club of the right sort would be a glorious thing for old Harvard...
...easily appreciable. Four years ago, before the old club system had reached its end, the crews of the club-houses rowed at spasmodic intervals, bound together by no ties of class or association, but merely by the tie of locality. The oarsmanship displayed in the races was of the crudest form; and the contests failed to call out more than a feeble enthusiasm in the College at large. Now, at least four months before the date of the Class Races, we have four crews working daily for position in their respective boats, and each crew given an incentive to faithful...