Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University association football team will play its first game in the intercollegiate series this afternoon, meeting Yale on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Although the poor condition of the ground will retard the play to a great extent, an interesting and hard-fought game is expected...
...part of undergraduates for more public lectures by members of the Harvard Faculty, and the CRIMSON has frequently urged that more lectures be given in the Union by such men. In the second place, the attendance at some of the lectures recently given in the Union has been very poor, and we believe that the members of the Union are not realizing as they should the opportunities presented by these lectures. At the last Union lecture (an exceptional address delevered by an exceptional man) barely half a hundred men were in attendance. Such a record speaks for itself. Professor Rotch...
Owing to the poor condition of a part of Soldiers Field, the Freshman game with Waltham has been cancelled...
...failures of nearly all the Harvard volunteers in settlement work are found to take the form of irregular attendance, the causes for which were either poor adjustment of the man to his position or the fact that he intended to work only in an abstract sense, and therefore lacked the enthusiasm necessary to carry him through the practical sacrifices demanded by his work. Failure on the part of the settlement was often traced to a deficiency in giving the volunteer definite work to carry on and in not explaining to him how this work was to be done...
...field events Harvard has been very poor during the last two or three years, but prospects for this year are somewhat brighter. Of last year's point winners against Yale, F. H. Leslie '12, in the shot, and T. Cable '13, in the hammer-throw, are available and look to be sure point winners this year. Cable has several times beaten the Harvard record in practice and with an added year's experience in his event should be able to do as well in actual competition as in practice. L. D. Howard of last year's Freshman team...