Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report, "the managers obtained no A's, had only about one-third the proportion of B's obtained by non-participants, had nearly twice the proportion of D's and almost three times the proportion of E's. . . . The scholarship of managers and candidates for managerships was strikingly inferior to that both of players and of students not participating in the major sports...
After the first week of outdoor practice, Coach William B. Young '13 believes he has the material in the forty Freshmen retained on the squad, for an even better yearling baseball team than he turned out last year. The week has been spent in weeding out the inferior players rather than in picking twelve or fourteen men to constitute a first team. For this reason only a very indefinite idea can be had of the strongest line-up. Coach Young has put several different combinations through practice games this week...
...have been a hardened reader of the Lampoon for years and years, and I must say I have learned to shun that annual issue to which the ex-editors contribute. Only too often it has been made up partly of the inferior work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind...
Canadian hockey dropped another peg in the eyes of Boston fans last night when the Winnipegs of Manitoba lost to the Crimson Ramblers 4 to 1. For an amateur league team the visitors appeared weak in all-round play inferior in stick-work, skating and shooting to the Ramblers; and they lacked any vestage of team-work...
...possibly is the password. He finds here a large number of his class-mates already acquainted and firmly established in a society into which he cannot break as a Ford breaks into a show-window. He generally does not deign to make friends with Bostonians-who are so much inferior to the men of C--. Yet he finds no social life for a Harvard man outside of Boston. Socially Harvard is not independent...