Word: slipshodness
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...chances for a good team this year are bright, providing it rids itself of the erratic playing indulged in for the last few games. Some of the old men realize what is expected of them, and are working like veritable Trojans, while the others are ambling along in a slipshod manner. The championship season will soon be upon them, and unless there is a decided stirring up, Princeton will find herself at the bottom of the heap. It is true the season has been a late one, and the frequent changing around of the men has kept matters...
...still worse, the nine is shiftless and does not seem to care to improve. With the exception of three or four men, the team apparently lacks a conscientious determination to learn the game. It is almost unnecessary to add what nearly everyone must perceive, that the flelding is slipshod, the batting weak and aimless, and the base running stupid...
...members of the base ball graduate advisory committee, also, the thanks of the university are due. This committee has shown so deep an interest in the progress of the nine that its members have acted personally as coaches. They have made it evident that the slipshod methods of the past two years are no longer in vogue at Harvard, but that an earnest endeavor to win has been infused into the nine and is making every man play his best. Under their influence the nine has improved steadily, and regained the confidence of the college; and base ball has taken...
...work in drawing up a bill providing for the establishment of a "National Hall of Records," in which the archives of the United States can be carefully kept and preserved. At present the archives are scattered more or less over the United States and are kept in a rather slipshod manner. To remedy this, the association is bending all its efforts...
...partial reforms before another year. We fail entirely to see what services the average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room...