Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mile run J. M. Groves sC. led most of the way, but on the last lap M. S. Crosby '08 spurted and won in slow time. Groves finished third; but, as he is a graduate student, H. W. King '08, who finished fourth, secured the point for third place. M. B. Van Brunt '08 ran well in the half-mile and beat H. Watson '10 by five yards...
...work of the Freshman crews has improved somewhat, but the first crew does not yet set on an even keel and the men are slow at the catch. The order has been kept, throughout, the same as last week. The second crew is far more ragged than the first, and at times rows poorly together...
...work was very satisfactory, and both crews rowed smoothly. Lunt was in excellent form and finished out his stroke vigorously. On the first crew, during the trip down-stream, there was a slight tendency to be too slow on the recovery, but on the row back to the boathouse this was improved...
...Lotos-Eaters," as given at the graduates' night performance, the Hasty Pudding Club has at last produced a play which contains situations. The lines are often slow, and the actors are forced to make up by emphasis what the repartee lacks in wit; the villains noisily confide in the audience while the police are down stage; but the complications of a disguised undergraduate acting as guide to his Class Day flame, and getting mixed up with an anarchist plot furnish two acts full of good scenes...
...check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial and experience; and has been subject to constant scrutiny, with a desire to adapt it to existing conditions, nowhere more than in the Athletic Committee itself. That the whole code has not been thoroughly overhauled and simplified during the last two years, as was planned...