Word: lax
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personalities." There certainly should now be allowed no possibility for such criticisms to gain credence. To one who avails himself conscientiously of the training afforded by the work of the English department, such a criticism simply repeats ad nauseam the vague and far from scholarly discontent of lax students...
...noon. Everything promises a thorough success in the celebration, and it is now simply a question as to how that success may best be advanced. It is every man's duty to take part in the procession, It is a shame that the two upper classes are the most lax in signing, - the two classes which are the legitimate leaders. No one student can alter the success new assured, but every additional name lends new weight and influence...
...halves of three quarters of an hour apiece, while yesterday each half only lasted thirty minutes, the score compared very favorably with that of the Princetonians, yet it must be said some of the playing done by Harvard was wretched. The eleven cannot be too severely criticised for their lax and faulty play in the first half, when two splendid chances were offered for touchdowns, but were lost through careless fumbling. Then again the half-backs showed too great a desire for kicking the ball over the line instead of rushing it. The tackling was too high, a fault which...
...once withdraw from it. It is a disgrace to the crimson that it is worn by men who care so little to maintain its reputation. The college will lend an enthusiastic support to any team which is determined to win, but it will in no sense tolerate lax and aimless work...
...caution students in the college buildings against leaving their doors unlatched, or leaving anything of value outside their doors. As a natural result of the condition of the turf in the yard and of the severity of the weather and of rather lax efforts on the part of the yard authorities, that most objectionable element of Cambridge society, an element the thought of which means quite as much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What...