Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more formidable against Yale than they were against the Tigers. The game was neither thrilling nor spectacular. Yet it was interesting because it was closely fought because, too, it contained a great deal of first-class football. This is not, however, to say that the contest was unmarked by poor-grade football. There was loose handling of the ball by both elevens. For the fumbling of kicks elemental conditions provided adequate excuse, but hands were inexcusably slivery in other cases. Both teams injured themselves through commission of faults calling for penalties. And the rivals indulged in some poor generalship...
...will call for the articles collected on Thursday. The Social Service Committee of Philips Brooks House makes three such collections each year with the object of giving students an opportunity to dispose of articles where they will be most appreciated and to make it possible to aid many deserving poor...
Nelson Marns, a man of unimpeachable probity and ruined finances, is endeavoring to construct a canal through a small town in New York. He has secured the option on the land desired from the land owners, who are poor farmers. He is continually blocked in his efforts to get the charter granted by the local coal trust and several other powerful corporations, whose interests would be jeopardized by the building of the canal. Marns, his ward, Faith Stuart and several others who have the interest of the community at heart, are struggling to secure the granting of the charter...
...Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House makes three such collections each year with the object of giving students and opportunity to dispose of articles, with which they are through, where they will be most appreciated, and to make it possible to aid many deserving poor. The clothing is carefully sorted, the best of it being reserved for needy students and the rest distributed among recognized charitable institutions...
...University backs found it difficult to penetrate that side of the line. Kinsolving was the only back who could gain at all, and his advances were slight; in fact the total distance gained by the Southerners during the entire game amounted to only 54 yards. The ends were poor and were continually being put out of the play...