Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amassed by its opponents, the 1918 baseball team has not had a successful season. The difficulties encountered in obtaining sufficient time for practice, due to the military schedule, the lack of experienced players, and the large number of crack service teams on the schedule are chiefly accountable for the poor showing...
...team was decidedly lacking in good hitters, the individual averages being unusually low. The fielding too was rather poor as compared with former years, and the number of errors made was all out of proportion to the put-outs and assists. A striking feature of the season's records is the scarcity of sacrifice hits, only five such hits being made during the whole season...
...Track and Field Championships held at the University of Pennsylvania today and tomorrow. The men will take part in the meet in order that the University may be represented in this annual event, in which it has always had a team entered in past years. After the poor showing against Yale and Princeton last Saturday, it is not expected that the quartet of track men will star in the intercollegiates, and the trip is made more as a reward for faithful training than in the hope of individual brilliancy...
With only two more days of active canvassing left, the grand total of the University Red Cross campaign was brought to $1,994.25 last night by subscriptions amounting to $361.75 for the day. The poor showing of yesterday's collection, however, is to a certain extent due to the fact that no report was received from Team 2 in time for publication. Nevertheless, the University is responding very poorly. Every student in the University will be approached before tomorrow night by a member of the Red Cross Committee in the dormitory canvass. If there are students who, because of living...
...parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...