Word: unevenly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social and political problems of the day. The visit of Mr. Plumb, for instance, and especially the enthusiasm with which his audience stayed on to question him, are encouraging symptoms. The editorials of the CRIMSON, too, deserve a wider audience than they achieve; while naturally enough they are pretty uneven from day to day, they are frequently more distinguished for sanity and common sense than the corresponding pages for the same day of any of the Boston papers...
...present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes in his personal capacity, quite unnecessarily, is not altogether in tune with the rest of the story. Despite, however, its occasional lapses into the immature and inept, the story as a whole is vividly and consistently imagined, vigorously...
...very short, with the exception of "The Shadow of Death," by Mr. Emerson Low. This is a story that catches and holds the attention, a story of some power, but also of obvious crudities. The weakest of the other stories is "The Mausoleum of Signore Palzi"; it is uneven, hurried, and immature. The best is "Traumerei," by Mr. Prosser, a bit of real life presented with a vividness that would be stronger if the author curbed a little more a tendency towards floridity...
...College Library, shows that the Library has reached a total of nearly two million volumes and pamphlets. As Professor Coolidge's report reads: "It now ranks both in size and in quality among the greatest collections of books in the world, though its constituent parts are of uneven strength and all present unlimited possibilities of improvement." The principle need seems to be satisfactory endowment, which will not make the departments dependent on the varying gifts of each year. For the most part the housing of the collections is unsuitable. The price of books, binding, labor and everything else is rising...
...with the minor sports. Their existence from year to year is uneven. A championship team may lose its men by graduation, and the next year the team, composed entirely of green men, will head the bottom of the list. The reasons for a lack of good substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...