Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Most of the prizes which are open to competition in the University offer little besides experience to those who have the misfortune to be very slightly inferior to the winners. The plan, therefore, of including in the reports the names of unsuccessful competitors whose work deserves mention is eminently fair. This recognition, however disproportionate to the amount of preparation which the recipients bestow upon their contributions, should make failure less disappointing, and should increase the number of candidates...
...game where definite planning secures a well-appreciated result. For this reason he does not care for the unlimited forward pass, which can now be tried without severe penalty on first and second down. Throwing the ball around indiscriminately may be the last resort of a weak or inferior team, and as such is unsatisfactory...
...opinion. Criticism of the coaching system at the proper time should be open to any man; but for the official organ of the Alumni Association to print an article ten days before the Yale game, which attempts to apologize publicly for a sure defeat, on the grounds of an inferior coaching system, is assuming an unsportsmanlike attitude unworthy of any Harvard graduate, however little he may represent graduate opinion. A more inopportune attack could not have been made by the outside press. Undergraduates are ready to support their team in the face of an unfavorable outlook, and it hardly behooves...
...fact that the songs selected by the Song Committee were by no means up to the standard of former years. It is understood that over 40 songs were submitted for trial, and it appears from the results that the Committee must have struggled with a large number of highly inferior compositions. The only other supposition is that the Committee's judgment may possibly have been at fault. There can be no doubt, however, that it those the three least of 40 evils...
...hasty in passing judgment on any song, we agree that the songs chosen were at least below the average of past years; but the remedy does not appear to be in going to the time and expense of orchestrating songs that in the opinion of the Committee were inferior to those selected. The competition is nominally closed, but it is not yet too late to put into use words that are dignified--not blatant and boastful--to be sung to some tune that we all know; nor is it too late for men of musical ability to make an effort...