Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...institutions He established still better ones. He was no iconoclast. Especially at the present day was there a need for paying heed to this constructive side of Christ's work. Young men were inclined at present to be iconoclastic. They forgot that though destruction is easy, construction is a slow and painful process. A man's religion might be fetichism but it might be the best that he was able to have. To destroy it without putting something better in its place was to do a positive injury...
...suggestion of President Eliot with reference to raising money for the Library is carried out we feel sure that the graduates and friends of Harvard will not be slow to respond to any appeal that the Corporation may make to them. The Library is, as President Eliot says, the very core of the University, and that this most important department should have its immense capacity for usefulness impaired on account of insufficient quarters can not but cause mortification to every Harvard man who has the good of the University at heart...
Since the two men were chosen to represent Harvard in the intercollegiate tournament, the interest in the Harvard chess tournament has flagged, and the men have been very slow in playing their games. But one game remains now to be played, between Van Kleeck and Shenfeld. Ballou has won the tournament, Shoenfeld is second. The score up to date is as follows...
...soon as the work began to be settled, prospects were encouraging, with all the old players back, and several new men of promise, among them Mills, DeWitt, Jerrems, Louis Hinkey, Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least...
Woods, on end, plays a good, hard, conscientious game. He, however, is slow in getting down on the ball, and sometimes lets a play go outside him. He cannot keep off side...