Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago the station's staff began to pay particularly close attention to illegitimate infants whom it placed in foster homes. Average I. Q. of these 275 children's mothers was 87, and their fathers were mostly unskilled laborers with little education. The parents were rated "poor stock" by every standard...
Elementary laboratory periods have a tension all their own when poor, nervous students are graded by eagle-eyed assistants every time they lift their fingers...
Taking the game as a whole, it is really impossible to tell if or how much Harvard improved over the Princeton clash. Chicago brought a scrappy, courageous team which looked very flashy and tricky for a while, but the eleven was in such poor condition that the latter part of the encounter was distinctly harrowing, and the same early flashiness and trick stuff later on looked very much like a pick-up game...
...center-forward post is commanded by Art Page, a shifty runner but a poor trapper, who has improved rapidly since his Freshman year. Perhaps the weakest part of the first line is in the inside positions which bear the brunt of passing and defense work midfield. Harden and Witkin, two Seniors, are average, experienced men. Carr finds it worthwhile to substitute Rousmaniers and Willets for about 25 minutes of each game to relieve the pressure of these posts...
...fact that M.I.T. is offering several good technical and mathematical courses in this subject is far from being a spur to Harvard's Department of Geography. On the one hand, fears that a meteorological course would only be a poor second to the courses at Tech., and, on the other hand, the knowledge that no one could teach an elementary course in the subject as well as the late Professor Ward of Harvard, have persuaded members of the Department to omit five vital courses. Certainly Professor Brooks is more than competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there...