Word: meagerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fund. This means that at least four thousand dollars are available for scholarships for upperclassmen and graduates. In addition, the catalogue lists a Cambridge fund for the same purpose. Ostensibly the University contributes to this fund but an examination of the records would probably show that this is very meager if not nonexistent. From 1929 to 1932 as few as seven students, including both upperclassmen and graduate students, received aids and as many as nineteen. The average amount received by these students was two hundred dollars regardless of group rating and evidence of high scholarship. From these facts...
...long days in bed, but when they turn to the library which is provided for them they find only a few dog-eared detective stories and stuffy novels. Compared to the impressive collections of books at college infirmaries like that of Dartmouth, the facilities offered Harvard men appear meager indeed...
...Varsity swordsmen on the afternoon of November 26, he will be faced with the problem of re-vamping his entire fencing organization to meet with the new rules of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association. It is not that his men won't qualify or that there is an unusually meager amount of good material, but rather that the heads of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association have decided to add another man to the regulation teams, and to change the system of rating...
...afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...
...Meager Job. The Governor of New Hampshire gets a salary of only $5,000, has to supply his own executive mansion. For the past ten years he has also been a Republican. After last week's primary the man who seemed slated for one of the most meager U. S. gubernatorial jobs was Public Service Commissioner H. Styles Bridges of Concord. His Democratic opponent: John L. Sullivan (no kin) of Manchester...