Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite wretched support from the bleachers, the University baseball team ha, won seven of its eight preliminary games. Much of this meager backing has come from members of various athletic squads who watch the games after their own practice; and from other groups who have been conspicuous for their unfailing attendance. To these faithful few the inadequacy of the cheering has been only too apparent: the student body as a whole has shown utter indifference...
...makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns at this point are meager, but it is also true that a new conscience in the Church is preparing for the adequate support of its ministry...
...only recently that large corporations have experienced the consequences of depleting the ranks of college faculties by offering lucrative positions to professors. They have found it to their advantage to make use of the high living costs and the meager professors' salaries as a means of luring valuable men away from the teaching profession. They have been only too glad of the chance to make converts to the industrial ranks at the expense of the colleges and universities...