Word: flounderers
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...inseparable difficulty at the outset: men cannot find time to attend the rehearsals. The natural consequence was well illustrated by my own class. It is within bounds to say that half of us had never looked at the song before we were huddled together, hot and excited, to flounder through it at sight. Moreover, even were the difficulty overcome - even if every senior had learned his part and sang - there are two reasons why the result would be ineffective. In the first place, the volume of sound - in the open air with a full brass band to contend against - could...
...freshmen. It is undoubtedly the best diamond, but in some places the ground is bare and heavy, and in others rough and grassy. What is true about the pitcher's and batter's box of this diamond is true of all the others. The pitchers and batsmen flounder in hollows in their attempts to deliver and bat the ball. The wooden home plate is so far above the level of the ground that sliding is not to be thought...
...walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common in Cambridge, one is obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities who are so eager that we shall tread in straight paths...
...Love may flounder in the gale...