Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...baseball team was defeated by Dean Academy yesterday 14 to 1. The Freshman pitchers, Coolidge, and West, gave decidedly weak exhibitions as compared with the Dean twirlers. Flaherty, in the first five innings, held the Freshmen to one hit, and Keefe, the second twirler, was not scored on until the ninth inning, when 1919 secured its lone run. The Freshman batters were noticeably weak throughout the game, while their opponents bunched their hits...
...slow and listless game the University baseball team defeated Bates yesterday afternoon by a score of 11 to 3. The team which defeated the Crimson last year by a score of 3 to 2 was weak in every department of the game. The University played errorless ball and made the most of the bases on balls and errors of their opponents. When these breaks came, the University was able to bat out the hits necessary to put the runs across...
...large percentage of the ablest college graduates. The reason for this lies partly in the appeal of the lawyer's career, and partly in the character of the work. It is known to be exacting, analytic, and to develop ability to think and concentrate. It gives the formerly weak-willed undergraduate who stands the test a grip on himself; and whether a man practices or not, testimony is ample that the law training is of inestimable value. Hence a student who is in doubt will make no mistake by spending a year or two or three in the Law School...
Even as yet in ordinary discussion, the Swiss system is either little more than a name or is so distorted that the Swiss would not recognize it. The debate will present the carefully sifted essentials of the question, with the strong points emphasized and the weak points mercilessly attacked...
...theme is a typical Galsworthy one--"let the strong pity the weak." We have seen it in "The Fugitive" and less clearly, in "The Pigeon." William Falder, a junior law clerk, forges a check to obtain money with which to run off with the woman he loves, who is married to a brute of a husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves...