Word: haplessness
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...former Cornell student, I must protest the reference in Sanford R. Cardin's article of February 14 to the Cornell swimming team as "hapless agriculture majors." I am not attempting here to defend the talents or lack thereof of the Cornell swimming team, but rather to clarify the status of Cornellians. First of all, there are many different colleges at Cornell University only one of which is agricultural. Secondly, while one can major in various aspects of agriculture in the New York State College of Agriculture, one can also major in biology, microbiology, statistics, botany...
Coming off two tough matches against Princeton and Penn, though, the Crimson was anything but loving toward their hapless neighbors. Except for Scott Mead's 17-15 third-game squeaker, none of the games was close...
...fellow film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a market in movie nostalgia that has so far been more apparent than real...
...weak-willed mother's boy in search of a wife and a way to untie the apron strings. Hunt doesn't sting all that well, but his comic sense is more than adequate, and he manages to stop the show a few times with broad gestures and a bewildered, hapless expression...
From there it was all Radcliffe. Every time the hapless Emmanuel offense tried spark a fast break, the Crimson defense was there to make them look silly. First Hildy Meyers grabbed a steal, followed by two Ellen Hart conversions, and a steal by freshman Loretta Christiansen...