Word: medium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...batting was so scattered and unreliable that no team play in this respect was possible. The batting work was not so steady or effective as last year, and several of the positions were fielded weakly. Two places in the outfield still remain unsettled with no candidate of even medium ability for either, and the make-up of the infield is very unsatisfactory. The only very encouraging feature of the trip was the improvement in the batting of some of the men who have been considered deficient in this respect...
...lecturer then went on to describe Bourget and his views of French life through the medium of several of his best works...
...life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...President gives a comprehensive survey of the work of the Appointment Committee,--an institution copied with modifications from the Appointments Bureau of the University of Oxford, which acts as a medium for obtaining employment for graduates and undergraduates of the University, and keeps a systematic registry of applications for employment. The Report shows that the Committee, which renders its services gratuitously, has obtained situations for a large number of graduates...
...Davy. Robinson has been working here five months, and in that time he has completed one of the shells ordered. He will have the other finished by the latter part of May. The measurements of the 1899 University boat were followed in building these shells, and they are of medium weight and rather stiff. Robinson has also done much work repairing and rigging old boats, and has built one single shell. Davy has just started work on the eight ordered from him, and it will be completed by the first of June...