Word: meager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should taste or sentiment argue nothing, the Junior may yet be induced to take his chances for the Yard dormitories by the thought that the last year of his college residence draws near, and his acquaintance with the men of his class is, at best, very meager. Harvard is the university par excellence of the individual. The much mooted question of Harvard indifference very largely explains itself through the emphasis placed upon the sacred right of a man to be himself, even to the point of being thought queer for it. But individualism like other virtues, becomes a vice when...
...summary of the Freshman meet follows: O'Neil (H), Chute (T), Luttmann (H), Kirwin (T), King (H), Meager (T), Murchie (H), Hall (H), Taylor (H), Lake (H), Bennett (T), Jones (H), Shea (H), Walcott (H), Smith...
...falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present so pitiable a spectacle of discord and division? Four years ago the Republican Party...
...name Picnic still survives in the minds of many. Both the picnic and celebration have always been largely financed by the money extorted from the Freshman class when the pictures are taken. This year an hour and a half of strenuous supplication by the Seniors netted but the meager sum of $159.13, an amount hardly large enough to carry the entire celebration...
...theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...