Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Apropos of Cornell's ill success at the Mott Haven games and her inability to acquire honor and win events, the Cornell Sun prints the following...
...Hoist than they are by some of our own writers. The fulness of the statistics in regard to various important topics is very satisfactory. We have observed but few errors; the author is not accurate in some of his statements about the legal-tender cases in the somewhat ill-judged note on p. 62, and it is a very misleading statement on p. 231 that 'Unquestionably Congress can as little impair the obligation of contracts as a State," No court could declare a law of Congress unconstitutional merely upon the ground that it impaired the obligation of a contract. There...
...same position, when defeated on a field away from home. But is this any argument why this nuisance should not be done away with, or why Harvard should not take the first step in abolishing a proceeding that is without doubt a factor in the much debated ill-feeling in college base-ball...
Rand, '88, is ill and has been obliged to leave college for a short period...
...book is so largely a narrative in the past tense, and the incidents in Escott's life are so persistently unfortunate, that one thinks more on his broken existence and wasted talents than on the bravery, modesty and evenness-almost recklessness-of temper with which he bears ill-luck. But, for all that, there is a very strong personality about the man, a genuine integrity and independence that makes one have a kindly feeling toward him, even as a mere acquaintance...