Word: offhands
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...proselyting has gone among college athletes may be inferred from the attention paid in recent discussions to students who have moved from one college to another and who are designated by the question-begging name of "tramp athletes." Offhand a reasonable man might believe a tramp athlete the figment of a morbid imagination. He who hires a university athlete to come from another college must pay the way of that athlete for one year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year...
...plate and a dish of soup. He is in evening dress. In and around his buttonhole is a secondhand rose. More vegetables and even soup and fish are scattered about on the table and the guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those who are "to the manor born" may well profit by these hints on "How to Eat in Cambridge...
...Offhand this is quite mystifying but in common language it is a matter of relativity. The more one does in one year the less required the next. The pamphlet on "Regulations for Students in Harvard College", is published that these facts may be known; and knowledge of the requirements would prevent misunderstanding-and possibly mishap...
...first match of the University rifle team was held last Friday night and Saturday morning when the University marksmen lost to the Iowa State University with a score of 403 to 363. This was an offhand or standing match held under the rules of the National Rifle Association which require that the men shoot off-hand one week and prone the next...
...constructive editorial policy, but only at times. There would be opportunities for interesting articles or essays in the Advocate on the technique of modern football, on the teaching of literature at Harvard, on the decline of the discussion-group idea here to select a few topics offhand. If the editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should be not merely to embalm choice literary...