Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...errors that were made, bad as they were, were not the worst feature of the game. By good pitching the Holy Cross men were held down to two runs, and, by any ordinary playing, the 'varsity would easily have beaten out this score, but their aggressive work was simply lifeless. They lost a chance to score in the first with two men on bases and no one out, and, from that time on, they went to sleep. Toward the close of the game, they realized that something was needed, but seemed unable to throw any vigor into their play. However...
...worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas of the characters dispelled by such lifeless and ridiculous pictures. The two leading articles of the number are the story "Which Miss Charteris." and "Ice Yachting." The former is a love story which makes pleasant enough reading, but which is nothing at all out of the usual line of love stories, "Ice Yachting" is principally an account of this...
After the unusual excellence of the October and November numbers, the December Monthly is a disappointment. The graduate article is interesting from its very brilliant and enthusiastic style, but it is rambling and not pointed; a "first paper" on Cardinal Newman is scholarly but somewhat lifeless; and the "story" of the number is a delicate character-sketch, but lacks a visible cause for existence. The verse is much better than the prose, however, especially the "battle song" by Herbert Bates, ('90). It is to be hoped that so good an innovation as a "graduate poem," so to speak, will...
...this very reason that Captain Trafford, Dr. Conant, Mr. Lathrop, Cumnock, Cranston and the rest of the coaches decided that the game would have to be cancelled. The experience with the Chicago team shows that after a big game the work of the eleven is slow and lifeless. The nerves of the men seem to get wrought up to meet the crisis and when this is passed, there comes the relaxation. Now Monday and Tuesday of the final week are the most important days of the whole season and it would not do to have the men in the condition...
...Cambridge Latin School defeated the fresmen by a score of 9 to 3 yesterday afternoon. Though on the whole the freshmen did not play badly, their work was loose and usually lifeless, while their batting and base-running were very weak. The Cambridge team played a strong steady game taking the lead from the first and holding it easily. They out-played the freshmen in every point, fielding, batting and base-running. The following is the score...