Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...program for tomorrow night will be: (1) Medley of Popular Airs arr. Parmelee and Pell (2) Rendez-Vous, Intermezzo Rococo, Aletter (3) Skylark, waltz, Deppen (4) a. "Poor Butterfly," from "The Big Show" at the New York Hippodrome Hubbell b. "Mammy's Coal Black Rose," Whiting (5) "Stars and Stripes Forever," exit march Sousa
...less bizarre, shows in its frequent graceful lines more promise of actual power. Timotheus' lyre and Pope's lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...
...play their two games on successive Saturdays. . . This year Yale probably met no stronger opponents than Colgate and Brown, while all of her so-called 'minor team' opponents gave her very hard games. This left the team so worn-out physically that many of the players were in poor condition in the two final games, and several of the best of them could not play at all. Playing Harvard and Princeton on successive Saturdays is not good either for the game or for the players. Princeton, of course, has the same problem; Harvard alone...
...course, before going one might know the play ought to be amusing, since Harry Leon Wilson, none other, wrote it. But "Ruggles of Red Gap," also the work of this same man, fell flat, although it had possibilities, and this due to the poor dramatization. Lee Wilson Dodd, however, in the present case, has done his task well, for there is as much dramatic consistency shown as is necessary and thorough sagacity in the arrangement of the dialogue. One rule which has been wisely followed is that of moderation and restraint, and the result is that the taste of caricature...
Shortly after the end of the regatta the comp and wherry races were held on the half-mile course up the river. C. L. Poor, Jr., '18 and F. T. Fisher '19 were the winners of these two races respectively. The last event of the season was the race for single shells for the Regent's Cup. This was won for the second time by N. P. Darling '17, who, with J. C. White, 2d, 17, also won the double sculls race...