Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trip back to the boat house serious difficulties were met with from the high sea that was running in the river. Fortunately a washboard had been put on the shell a few days before; but, as it was, the crew narrowly escaped swamping...
...committee is not in itself alone anything to take the slightest pleasure in; it has been a disagreeable duty performed to gain a very desirable end. The inexperience of the men involved in the affair, and the fact that they did not, in all probability, realize the serious character of what they did, makes it very hard to interfere with the continuance of their college course...
...reasons for the change are doubtless excellent, though they might be more obvious. But the abruptness with which the department has acted is manifestly unfair. The new regulation can hardly be of immediate, vital importance; yet it means serious disappointment to the many who are now practically debarred from the course...
...Pierian Sodality opened the concert with the overture from Orpheus, which they played as well as could have been expected, for the selection was entirely too serious for them. On the whole the selections of the Pierian were hardly spirited enough for such a concert, though in their encores they played more lively pieces...
...fielding Harvard played much better, with the exception of two costly mistakes by Stevenson and Paine. Her work was quick and sharp, but showed a serious shortcoming that has been apparent before,- the opportunities for double plays were not accepted...