Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final analysis it was the superior reserve that Coach Bigelow commanded that decided the issue. On Saturday Harvard always had a a fresh team on the ice, while Ramsey, the Prince ton mentor, was forced to the alternatives of playing with tired players or of using replacements inferior to his regulars So frequently did the Harvard lineup change that the distinction between "regular" and "substitute" was entirely dependent upon who happened to start the game. Chase, Gross, and Hamlen answered the bell for the opening session, but in the second and third stanzas, Scott, Harding, and Zarakov opened play...
...right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears strangely. A close acquaintance of many years with Horatio Parker, my friend and associate, the composer of the song selected, leads me to doubt if any "inferior" music ever came from his pen. Music of varying degrees of varying degress of delicacy...
Song Said to Be Inferior...
...avowed purpose in founding the Intercollegiate Musical Corporation, with the Harvard Glee Club as a charter member," said Mr. Woodworth. "The objection raised by Harvard this year was that the prize song, chosen by the Corporation to be sung by each contesting club, is musically of a very inferior quality. Such a choice defeats the purpose of the contest...
Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...