Word: lukewarm
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...unfavorable to the man living at a distance from Cambridge as to be an important factor in his decision regarding a choice of college? Is our athletic policy, which discourages long trips for return games, save under exceptional circumstances, a contributing cause? Does the fault lie in the lukewarm reception which is only too frequently given to school and college teams visiting us? Is the Harvard social system so designed that it repeatedly occasions detrimental resentment among a great many undergraduates and benefits but a few, and is this the one basic cause of the trouble...
...himself as ready to enter the community of nations provided the individuality of the United States is not to be submerged in the welter of conflicting ambitions and prejudices which the League, without modifications, bids fair to become. To the internationalist, to the idealist, this view may seem so lukewarm as to be palatable, so cautious as to be ridiculous...
...great an extent our allies are dependent upon us for financial support. News is being sent daily to Europe, to Germany as well as to France and England, of the response which our people make to government movements. We do not want it said that we are lukewarm, but that the loan has been greatly over-subscribed and that the people are already preparing for the next issue...
...number includes three pieces of verse, only one of which contains anything remotely resembling even lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something...
...lukewarm editorial, a half-baked leading article, three uneven experiments in verse, and four ingenious, trivial stories--the answer, we trust is not too obviously: Advocate. And yet some such formula as this, it seems, would frequently apply. The current issue, at any rate, is not above mediocrity. Not that the contributors always lack ideas; in two cases at least subjects of importance are broached, on which undergraduate opinion just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed...