Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current issue of the Harvard Illustrated, which has waited until a few days before March before distributing its February edition, contains articles and photographs covering a wide field of subjects. The contents are rich in variety but in many places poor in literary workmanship...
Henry James, famous author and brother of the equally famous philosopher, William James, died in London last night at the age of 72 years. He had been in poor health for some time. Famous the world over, he has been called the novelist who wrote like a philosopher. His early education was received in France and Switzerland, but he returned to this country and studied for a time in the University Law School. In 1911 he was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University...
Only twelve answered the first call for Freshman battery candidates, as against twenty-two last year. Although this showing is numerically poor, several of the candidates have brilliant "prep" school reputation...
...fast scrimmage against the Harvard Club seven at the Arena yesterday afternoon gave the University hockey team a victory by the narrow margin of 2 goals to 1. The team played in somewhat ragged form, and only several pretty stops by Wylde and some poor shooting by the Harvard Club wings decided the scrimmage in the University's favor. Baker scored against the Harvard Club after some clever stick-handling and a few minutes later a good piece of team-work gave the Harvard Club a goal. Fisher gave the University team the lead when he played the puck neatly...
Team-work was noticeably lacking in the playing of the second team, but the poor condition of the ice was partly responsible for this deficiency. Kissel and Merrill in the centre of the Freshman line played particularly well, while for the second team Rice was the star...