Word: slight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...morely of hilarity, but of reckless dissipation. "The Philosophy of Horatio" is almost well enough done to be justifiable: but "A Fake Play" has the fundamental weakness of being didactic without being clear. The third prose article, "Tactics for Teas," is amusing and entirely harmless; but it is too slight to prevent the prose of the number from conveying a general impression of murky disaster and gloom...
...start, at 4.08 o'clock, the Yale crew gained a slight advantage with a little the faster stroke, but at the end of the first half-mile the University crew led by a few feet. The men in both boats were rowing well and the splashing so pronounced in the first few strokes gave way to clean blade work. In the second half-mile Yale overcame Harvard's lead and was 1 second ahead at the mile flag. By the time that the 1 1-2 mile flag was reached the University crew, with a slow stroke, was rowing neck...
...strong head wind. The Freshman boat ran smoothly until the last half mile, when Mulligan seemed to lose control of his oar. Severance, at 5, caught a crab about three-quarters of a mile from the finish, and Rackemann, at 3, jumped his slide in the spurt. A slight change was made in the make-up of the Freshman eight. Mulligan returned to number 4, from which position he was yesterday changed to 2 in the four-oar; Crandall was moved from 4 to 2, while Cutler was changed from 2 in the eight-oar to a corresponding position...
...Freshman baseball team defeated Middlesex School 6 to 2 at Concord on Saturday. The Freshmen hit the ball freely, no one striking out, but showed a tendency to hit to the fielders. The base running showed slight improvement. The feature of the game was the Freshmen's batting rally in the eighth inning...
...whole race was interesting, especially the first half-mile, when all the crews remained fairly even. At the start, the Sophomores gained a slight advantage, leading the other boats by half a length. At the Harvard bridge they had increased this lead to two lengths of open water. The Freshmen, Juniors and Seniors followed in order. From this point the race developed into a struggle between the Sophomores and the Freshmen. Henry rowed 32 strokes to the minute, and Kemp, who had been going at an easier pace, raised his stroke also. His crew, however, was only able to decrease...