Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
...CRIMSON nine appeared on Soldiers Field, it found an opposing aggregation consisting chiefly of hired thugs, with a few wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager of the CRIMSON team, who allowed it. The game is therefore declared forfeited to the CRIMSON, by a score...
...whole situation was thoroughly set forth in a CRIMSON editorial that appeared on January 12, 1914: "Brattle Hall is both hopelessly small and hopelessly ugly. An armory would deprive the Dance of its atmosphere, would transfer it into a mere subscription party, nondescript and characterless. A Boston hotel would present unwise and perhaps disastrous extraneous temptations. We recall the class dinners of old. Finally, it is doubtful whether engaging any of these places would decrease expenses...
Brattle Hall is both hopelessly small and hopelessly ugly. An armory would deprive the Dance of its atmosphere, would transfer it into a mere subscription party, nondescript and characterless. A Boston hotel would present unwise and perhaps disastrous extraneous temptations. We recall the class dinners of old. Finally, it is doubtful whether engaging any of these places would decrease expenses. The apparent price might be lower, but the general average would be higher. For the Union, the class pays no rental; and those who are already members escape for a comparatively small price. For any other suitable hall, the rental...
...recovers his manhood under the influence of a girl and who relapses when she marries another man; the shorter, "Mary Hunters' Chair" by G. P. Davis, cleverly indicates the romance of two middleaged people as perceived by their children. C. G. Hoffman's "Yesterday" is one of those nondescript pieces of prose which seek to describe an atmosphere and a mood, but which, in spite of labored though sometimes felicitous phrasing, leave no mark on the mind...