Word: nondescription
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...equivocal character; one of those nondescript animals of the ocean that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl . . . . somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon . . . this cutpurse of the ocean...
...University track season which ended with the Intercollegiates last Saturday was one of the most remarkable that a Crimson team has had in recent years. Starting the season with a squad composed in the main of green material, Coaches Bingham and Farrell developed this "nondescript combination" into a group of fighting men who defeated Yale and later won sixth place in the I. C. A. A. A. A. games. The triumph over the Blue alone stamps the 1922 season as distinctive from others during the last seven years; for it was the first time since 1915 that a University track...
...York Tribune made the following comment: "The victory came as a great triumph for Coaches Bingham and Farrell, of Harvard who saw a nondescript combination of the early season develop form enough to win the first Crimson track victory from Yale since...
Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
...CRIMSON nine appeared on Soldiers Field, it found an opposing aggregation consisting chiefly of hired thugs, with a few wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager of the CRIMSON team, who allowed it. The game is therefore declared forfeited to the CRIMSON, by a score...