Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon against the Woven Hose team, and won by a score of five to three. Howe pitched very well, and was effective as long as he was in the box. The weak point in the playing was the calling for flies, which was very poor. The score...
...Yale, Hatch knocked the ball as far as Howe, who easily threw him out. Soule dropped Jones' easy pop fly, and Howe's poor throw of Merritt's grounder gave him second A pretty steal brought a Yale man to third for the only time. Lockett and Fox struck...
...largest items of expense in the college course of a poor student at Harvard is the cost of furnishing his room when he first comes to Cambridge. A considerable outlay is necessary, and it must all be made in one year. This is probably one of the chief of those considerations which so often prevent poor men from trying to come to college. Both students and members of the faculty have appreciated this fact, and two years ago steps were first taken to obviate the difficulty. A considerable amount of second hand furniture was collected in one way and another...
Harvard 13; Hartford 19.The nine played a remarkably poor game yesterday afternoon, and was defeated by the Hartfords in the worst played contest seen on Holmes field during the year. The men ylayed with no life at all except at the bat, where they did fair work...
...whole the crew may be said to have a poor finish. Although they sit up well and do not bury their boat at the finish, they are clumsy with their oars, so that they back water and splash when they take their oars out. They also fail to get a hard, vicious shove from the stretcher at the beginning and all through the stroke, and the crew is not well together. The men and approximate weights are as follows...