Word: slackness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lower half of the course, at about slack water tonight, Harvard covered two miles under 11 minutes, but it is doubtful if that pace could be continued through four miles. Harvard did not attempt to continue it, but stopped and Watson coached them from the launch. Yale rowed her best time on the upper course tonight, when she struck a fast gait and rowed far up the river. Harvard's work of the past two days has greatly improved the crew's form and the speed of the boat, for it did the course today in faster time than...
...most willing to listen to the old and new college songs which, when sung on such occasions, are so full of suggestion and even of inspiration. Unless there is some very good reason to the contrary, we feel that the Glee Club is making a great mistake to grow slack in maintaining this idea of informal open air singing. There are still, however, over two weeks of college left and much can be done in this time if the proper persons will take the pains to adopt the suggestion and correct the present tendency...
BASEBALL is a game which can be made to call for a man's most serious attention, or it can be played with little regard for improvement, but merely for the personal enjoyment of each individual player. Freshman nines are notoriously slack in their work at the beginning of the season. Toward the end they wake up to a sense of what they are aiming to accomplish, but too often their eyes are opened when the critical point has passed and defeat seems inevitable. They then rally, settle down to serious work and close the season, showing the college what...
...water sometime next week. There are eleven men at work now, ten of whom will be kept to the end. The crew is much better than the average freshman crew. According to a criticism in a New York paper their general fault is that they drop at the full slack and rush their slides. Though it is the duty of both Harvard and Yale to challenge this year, they have not yet done so, and no races have been arranged...
...fault of the existing state of affairs lies with the manager of the Ninety-two nine or whether with the class we do not know. It certainly seems, however, as if the management had made exceedingly bad calculations for the expenditures for the season, or else had been very slack about making the necessary collections; for the sum of a few hundred dollars is not such a bagatelle that it can be entirely overlooked by a manager when computing beforehand his expenses for the season. We are all loath to believe that a debt of this kind has been...