Word: weak
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game was not a very severe tryout for the Freshmen, as the Watertown team is unusually weak this year. The contest with St. Mark's at Southboro on Saturday should give them a harder test...
...however, has not been due to lack of effort, but rather to lack of individual and collective aggressiveness. No one has been guilty of indifference, but almost the whole nine has failed to show the spirit of a winning organization. The near-informal team of last spring, although painfully weak in ability and defeated all but once, played with a spirit that would make the 1919 aggregation unbeatable. Very fortunately, the players themselves realize the cause of their poor record to date, and will show an entirely different brand of baseball this afternoon. The important games are still ahead...
...beginning to show how easy it is to settle back into the old rut: will the undergraduate do the same, and, despite his huge lesson and the agonizing cry of the world, say "I am not of you"? The present hurrah for some of the old fleshpots points to weak assent, but there are, on the other hand, some indications that men are beginning to look over their wall. One of these is the Harvard Magazine, the second number of which has just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns the whole...
...Mollusc" is a light comedy, with a weak, sentimental ending, but has the virtue of illustrating the all too prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...
...weak, beginning April.9. a Retrospective Loan Exhibition will be held at the Museum as a "testimonial to the devoted service of French officers stationed at the University. If will consist of examples of French paintings, sculptures and other pieces of art from the Thirteenth Century to the present day. Since many of the objects have never been exhibited before in this country, the exhibition will be one of the most notable of its kind ever held in America...