Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vocation chosen by a young man is governed oftener by accident than inclination. But the manner in which it is pursued is controlled neither by luck nor chance. The liberal professions are crowded with incompetents. I know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when...
...result of the game Saturday convinced the college that the nine is well able to play ball. Bates deserves the greatest credit for the manner in which he filled his trying position and the support given the battery by the other members of the nine was often brilliant. The errors that were made seemed due to over-eagerness rather than to inability to field the ball. During the two weeks to come before the next game with Yale, the nine will have opportunity to meet a number of strong teams. With this additional practice we have great confidence that...
...have heard so many complaints about the manner in which the seats were all reserved on Saturday, that we are forced to notice it editorially. In the first place, the base-ball association has always been a money-making institution, having a large surplus in its treasury every year. Therefore there was no excuse for reserving every seat on Holmes field with the exception of the battered old stand off in right field. Secondly, in the Princeton game, all the seats from the hospital building to the clump of willows were unreserved, and it was naturally expected that the same...
...ball, base-ball, track athletics and tennis which Yale has had with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts are the most comprehensive that have ever appeared in a book on athletics. Although the book is written for Yale men, some facts brought...
...quite another view, yet after its manner excellent, is the story of "How I was not Married." The touch is light and graceful, and hence well adapted to the plot. There are, in the course of the story, many of the delicate turns which, when skilfully handled, always add a charm of their own. Julia's clever plot to outwit the maniac minister is a particularly happy idea...