Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union and do not belong, whether you do so through thoughtlessness or through lack of principle, will think twice before doing so, there would not be so much woeful disregard of other people's privileges. L. K. LUNT...
...sympathy would be less embracing were the cause of the punishment of a different nature. It was not a case of dishonor or immorality or viciousness, but one of woeful thoughtlessness and lack of recognition of the rules, which in the eyes of the Board is punishable in the same degree as more serious offences. The discipline meted out seems heavy. No serious moral flaw can be found in the act and the Board has not made its decision on the grounds of dishonesty in any connection, but it has dealt with the case sternly and without regard...
Against Princeton our recent record has been woeful indeed-four consecutive defeats in as many years. Although more successful against our Yale opponents, we are no longer looked upon as leaders in the art of argumentation, in which our pre-eminence had always been attributed to our acknowledged leadership in academic affairs. Certainly Harvard undergraduates are no less scholarly today than in the past; but they have lost sight of the splendid training that participation in an intercollegiate debate affords. Debating at Harvard is in a dangerous rut; its supporters are no longer representative of every side of Harvard activity...
...were at once heavy and fast made the problem of building up the line difficult from the first, and team-work made little progress under the many changes and experiments in the personnel of the team. For a long time there was evident in the line a woeful lack of aggressiveness, due largely to the lack of confidence of the men in themselves and to the same unfamiliarity with the play of their team-mates, which prevented team-work. There was uncertainty and hesitation in all the play. The elementary faults of high tackling and high charging were also noticeably...