Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra...
...soldier? No one is working for marks, no one is trying to hoodwink an instructor, no one is doing the minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip by, is not gaining something at a small cost; he is not deserving his instruction. The deception is against himself. He is the man to suffer...
...only Boston paper which would conceivably do such a thing has darkly insinuated that preference was given in the choice to Harvard men or other men with social prestige. It voices the woes of those hundreds of unsuccessful applicants who received their yellow slip, but got no further. The inference is that University, and therefore presumably mediocre or incompetent, men were chosen ahead of those sturdy and honest sons of Boston who were more eminently fitted to be officers...
...infield. The latter two men, however, will be forced to work hard to retain their old positions, as J. H. Enwright '19 is now in good standing with the Office, and will make a great bid for an infield position as he is a heavy hitter although apt to slip up occasionally in his fielding. C. S. Reed '17 will continue his last year's contest with Bothfeld over the shortstop position, with little to choose between the two men. The big gap in the infield is at first base, left vacant by the graduation of former Captain...
...indifferent to the odd moment. We are blind to its possibilities careless of the opportunities it offers. We squander them in prodigal wastefulness. If we do not have an hour or more available for a certain task, we let the precious moments slip by. We postpone until a more convenient time tasks which might be started and possibly finished. We plan our lives on a slip-shod basis. And then we wonder why our college careers are barren of achievement...