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Word: dearth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...today is of more interest to seniors as a memento of their class dinner than to the college at large. The editorials occupy less space than usual, and are not quite up to the high standard of the past issues under the present board. This is explainable by the dearth of topics which necessitates the selection of the "would-be bloods" as an editorial subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/14/1889 | See Source »

...last number of the Monthly, though its general tone is somewhat lighter than that of its precedessors, is excellent in every way with the exception of its verse. The dearth of real poetry of which the editors of our papers are loudly complaining is well illustrated by this number. Of the three contributions in verse, two are of little merit. They are lame in their movement and bare in their thought. The lines "A Picture" are better than the other verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The December Monthly. | 12/10/1888 | See Source »

...that a captain for the freshman eleven has been chosen, there should be no dearth of men, who will regard it as an honor to play on their class team, and consequently go at it in a way which will betoken defeat to the freshmen from New Haven. There must be no tomfoolery about practicing and everyone should work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

Bowdoin failed to score in the first or second innings In the third Dearth got his base on balls, stole second, went to third on a passed ball and came in on Moulton's hit to short. The inning closed with three men on bases. Bowdoin did not score again till the eighth inning, though they got men on bases several times. In the eighth Soule made a single, stole second, and came in on Williamson's single. This closed their run getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 4/27/1887 | See Source »

...Dearth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 4/27/1887 | See Source »

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