Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard was beaten by Holy Cross yesterday afternoon in Worcester by the score of 3 to 2, chiefly through inability to hit at critical times, combined with stupid base running. Two substitutes, Lynch and Davis were played, but Paine was in the box and the team could not have been much strengthened. Davis held Paine well, though he allowed three stolen bases, and Lynch made a difficult catch...
...played a creditable game, though he was evidently nervous. His error was on a long hit under the willows and was quite excusable. His two-base hit in the eighth inning was very timely. Both the Stevensons fielded well. During the game Harvard threw away several runs by stupid base running...
...necessarily renounce their every day pursuits and cease to come in contact with others. It often puzzles one who tries to understand what He mant by saying, that one who became a disciple of his had to forsake all possessions and follow Him. It is true that the slow, stupid populace with which he had to deal needed some goad to arouse them to a consideration of their spiritual condition; but that does not solve the riddle entirely. He did not seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished to put them...
Either we are an exceptional stupid lot, which our work in other courses do not always evince, or else there is something radically wrong in the way this course is conducted. In consideration that the brief, which has brought despair to many, was the first we have written, it seems that too great severity has been shown by certain of the instructors in marking. If the ideals of the course are high, so much the better, but let us be so guided that we may have hopes of reaching them. To try and frighten us into accomplishing this...
From the same publishers we have also received "A Singular Life" by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It is an interesting account of the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Ward at Andover. As an autobiography it is excellent but as a novel it is decidedly stupid...