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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow there will be a parable to the field. Every undergraduate in college should be in line with his class for the march to the Stadium in order that the poor showing of last night may be redeemed by a record-breaking parade before the game...

Author: By W. H. Claflin jr., | Title: Brace in Spirit Much Needed | 11/6/1914 | See Source »

...singing at the Michigan game lacked perfection in volume and spirit, and this is a condition that must not be evidenced at the remaining football contests this season. There is only one method of remedying the poor singing, and that consists in each man learning the words of all the football songs, and then attending the mass meeting tonight prepared to sing his best. Freshmen especially should learn the songs and should realize that a high standard of singing and cheering has been set in the past and must be set in the future. Princeton comes to the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARK! THE SINGING. | 11/5/1914 | See Source »

...game Saturday upset accepted calculations. That Williams should outplay Princeton and hold her heavier opponents to a 7 to 7 tie was entirely unexpected. Yale easily defeated the representatives of Colgate, while Brown, although putting up a poor brand of football, succeeded in nosing out a 12 to 9 victory over Vermont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVERE SET-BACK FOR PRINCETON | 11/2/1914 | See Source »

Brown defeated the sturdy Vermont eleven 12 to 9 in spite of playing extremely poor football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVERE SET-BACK FOR PRINCETON | 11/2/1914 | See Source »

Gore Hall barely succeeded in winning the Slocum trophy, her total of points amounting to ten, a lead of but one point over the total of nine which Standish obtained. Smith Hall was a poor third, gaining but three points. Cups will be awarded to the first dormitory crew which defeated both opponents, and medals to those men on the second and third crews which were victorious in their respective races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT CLUB GETS FILLEY CUP | 10/30/1914 | See Source »

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