Word: slipshodness
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Playing Generally Slipshod...
...remedy where they do occur. The Division of History, Government, and Economics is well equipped, through its system of tutors, to correlate thesis work, to allow doubling up, to see to it that a student does a few good theses well rather than a large number in a slipshod fashion. These are, of course, dangers of the abuse of such privileges; but they are administrative difficulties which the personal supervision of the tutors could surmount. President Lowell's theory that the student rather than the individual course is the proper unit in education applies with force to this situation...
...editorial articles and the news from the theatres, the Advocate contains five contributions in prose and thirteen in verse. The editors' exhortation to "study the map" is too long for its substance and shameless in its spelling. The news from the theatres tells much, but tells it in slipshod English...
...Slipshod English prevails throughout the number in prose and in verse. Among the contributors the thought of composition as an art seems rare. Such expressions as, "The two lawyers . . . . are unusually realistic, perhaps due to the fact that," etc., such sentences as, "It has novelty, punch, heart interest, and almost all the other ingredients which go to make up a smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful...
...only one respect, punting, did Harvard have the advantage. A total lack of team play was the chief of Harvard's many faults, and this was so apparent that it would have been inexcusable in the first game of the season. The plays were run off in a slipshod fashion with no concerted action in starting. On line plays the backs straggled into the holes in a hesitating way that put no force into the attack, and on end runs, with one exception, formed no interference. On the offense the line was slow, and neither opened holes nor helped...