Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard was first at the bat. Linn sent a grounder to second who fumbled and Linn was safe at first. Howland followed with a short hit, but was not out on account of an error of Knickerbocker's. Willard got first on a short hit, but stupid base-running by Linn and Howland resulted in their being caught between bases and put out. Henshaw got first on balls, but Mumford put the side out by a short fly to first. The base-running in this inning was the worst part of the Harvard game. Princeton started off well. Durell with...
...Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...
These resolutions referred to the first match game which was to have been played between the clubs. Lowell won the practice game, which was stupid in the extreme...
...then the action of Columbia was ill-advised. But if to learn applies with equal significance to all, if colleges are to be considered as common benefits open to either sex, if a bright, intelligent girl is to be allowed the privileges which are forced upon her, too often, stupid brother, then the action of Columbia College is significant as a step toward progress. We wish the reform every success, for it is a reform worthy of the highest success...
...languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...