Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mile, and the Freshmen won only one of the field events, the broad jump. J. P. Long '11 won both hurdles and the broad jump; R. C. Foster '11 won both dashes; and Captain H. Jaques, Jr., '11 won both the mile and half-mile very easily, but in slow time. No especially good performances were made, except the 100-yard dash, which went to Foster in 10 1-5 seconds, and the high jump, which Burlingame of Exeter won at 5 feet, 8 inches. Burlingame also won the pole-vault at 10 feet. The 440-yard dash was done...
Briggs was very slow during the whole game. He was not awake for Currier's throws, when two men might have been caught off first. He struck out twice at the bat, and held his base once when he should have run to second. Brennan was also slow in the field and in running g to first. The bright spot in the afternoon's work was the all-round good playing of Dana. He made three remarkable catches in left field of hard liners, one at his feet, and another by jumping up after a hard run. He secured...
...work last fall consisted of very slow paddling, and the stroke was kept low with the aim of teaching the crew to row smoothly. Considerable time was devoted to trying out strokes in all three crews on the squad. In the first crew Bacon was tried for the first month, and then Sargent was put in. At the end of the fall rowing a race was held over the four mile course in order to try out the men; and the rowing of the University crew in that race was fairly smooth. This spring six men picked from the dormitory...
...progress of reclamation of Soldiers Field has been slow and irregular. In 1905 and again in 1906 small portions of the land now available were reclaimed, but since then nothing has been done except of a rudimentary nature. The total area of the field as it is now bounded is about 61 acres. Of this about 24 acres are entirely developed, about 9 acres are underdrained but not ready for use until a proper surface has been placed upon it, and about 28 acres are entirely undeveloped...
...University association football team was defeated by Haverford, at Haverford, Penn., on Saturday, by the score of 1 to 0. In spite of the good condition of the field the game was slow. Haverford's forwards showed better team work than the University players, who were unable to cover the men against them...