Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rehearsed, dressed and went to dinner. The hall at the concert that evening was crowded and for the first time in public on the trip the football song was sung after the audience had repeatedly called for it. The accommodations behind the stage were very poor and the tuning of the instruments suffered in consequence, but the voices of the Glee Club were in better tune than usual...
...next morning we left for St. Louis, and the dinner provided for us at Champagne was so poor that we were given one on the dining car. The day on the train was spent as usual, the men reading and playing cards and instruments; in fact the whole trip was made to the banjo accompaniment...
...American Economic Association has offered a of $300 and a second prize of $200 for the two best essays on "Housing of the Poor in American Cities." Further particulars can be obtained at the office...
...there is any man here who has never been in the present reading room to know for himself its inconveniences-we would suggest that he pay it a visit before he takes his vacation. If the lack of ventilation, the poor light, the crowded tables, the early closing, and the general inadequacies of the place do not rouse him to doing what he can for speedy change, Harvard has yet to awaken in him the first impulses of public spirit...
...absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...