Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons for this is, I believe, that we do not accustom ourselves to using the machinery which would make reforms easily attainable...
...squad has been practising since December 30, but the men are still slow on their skates and lack team work. The candidates for the class teams will be called out shortly, and will practice on the rink with the University team...
...illustrated his talk with numerous photographs of the mountains, illustrating the beautiful forest lands and barren mountain peaks. These forests are being gradually cut by the lumber men, and unless the government prohibits their destruction the country will depreciate both in beauty and value, as the undergrowth is very slow to take root and grow...
...Randall and Motley--were given trials. At last Mills, who had been used at tackle all season, was moved out to end, where he plays as good a game as the other candidates and in addition is very valuable in carrying the ball. He is, however, a trifle too slow in determining where plays are going and gives practically no help to the other members of the team. Clark is a faster man than Mills, but has in an even greater degree the fault of not assisting the other players. At tackle also the struggle has been hard and long...
...nearly all of them have some faults that have not up to this time been remedied. Bowditch is one of the best players on the team in helping the man with the ball and in stopping plays around his end, but on punts he frequently overruns or is so slow in getting down the field that the ball is often returned some distance before he arrives. Barnard is a heady player but does not show as much fight as his position requires. Graydon can be relied upon for substantial gains, but when the other side has the ball he makes...