Word: off-handedly
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...half ebb tide, I think no such agreement existed, for, as you are well aware, there must be two parties to an agreement, and neither Captain Hammond or I knew anything about it. Moreover, I think, speaking of this agreement, whatever it was, that being verbal and off-hand, and no record of it being made, certain points in it, perhaps, were forgotten or overlooked by both parties, and hence the misunderstanding. I think, too, that the Harvard crew should be credited with having acted in good faith throughout the whole proceeding, for when they left New London...
...medal or appropriate pendant will be awarded to the winning college team. The match is open to teams of four or six, and the college championship prize will be awarded to the team making the best average score, at one hundred, two hundred and three hundred yards, off-hand. Columbia has already entered a team, and the matter is being agitated at Yale and Princeton, and both will probably compete. There is no reason why Harvard should not be represented, as there surely are enough men in college who with reasonable practice would represent the college with honor and perhaps...
...DEAR SIR, - I trust that you will forgive my not having returned an immediate answer to your kind letter of November 16, but I felt it was a matter which could not be settled off-hand. Although I am sure that I can assert, on behalf of the University, that they are most ready to acknowledge the spirit of Harvard in wishing to come over to England to row a match, and feel most flattered by it, yet at the same time the difficulties of getting together anything like a representative eight to row in August are very great...
...hand, some men may wish to take the elective who may be unable to do so in their Senior year, or who may find it profitable to take this one-hour course for two consecutive years. If, as has been affirmed, Harvard men generally lack the power of easy, off-hand speaking, ought not an elective, intended to remedy this defect, to be open to other classes besides Seniors? Or if this elective is too advanced for the under classes, cannot something elementary be given...
...shingle H. U. R. C., - in full, Harvard University Rifle Club, - and although such discipline is observed in it as to insure the safety of its members and the public at large, still it has a constitutional provision that guards against anything resembling military organization. The practice of "off-hand" rifle-shooting was the end for which it was originated by the Class of '77. By that class it was left to the University without debt, and with considerable property in its possession. The club is now in the same condition; and it only remains to be seen...