Word: mannerizes
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...impression has gained ground that the club is more semiprofessional than amateur in its composition.. Anything more contrary to the facts would be difficult to imagine. It is absolutely and entirely amateur in its make-up, and neither Dr. Davison nor the individual members are recompensed in any manner...
...delivered a lecture on "British and American Labor--A Comparison," --which was radical from the capitalistic standpoint,--in so quiet and sane a manner that he could not possibly be termed an agitator and scarcely a propagandist...
...changed in appearance since then. Today he seemed a quiet, stocky, dark little man in a dark suit, peering through thick glasses, with shoes that were rugged and might have been prescribed for the Boy Scouts. Before, as I recall, he wore splendid shirts and vivid suits, and his manner was boisterous in the extreme. Both times I liked him immensely. He is like his books-breezy, enthusiastic, cordial. Since Sir John Deering, his new novel, just about to be published, he has written twelve chapters of another. The one after that, he informed us, will have for its locale...
...reason for bestowing upon the University this unusual honor, Mr. Wertheim has stated "we chose Harvard to administer the fund particularly because we believe that it is and will continue to be the most liberal of American universities and will administer the fund in the same liberal manner that characterizes my father's views...
Whitman writes that coaches regard the ban on coaching from the side-lines as a joke and that they convey orders by various devices. He cites the manner in which Pfaffmann was sent into the Harvard-Holy Cross game as substitute quarterback and then called for a semi-trick play, as having something to do with this general discussion of football ethics and coaching from the side-lines. This week the newspapers have been press-agenting the Dartmouth game as a battle between coaches, partly resulting from the quarterback dilemma at Harvard...