Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Freshmen have been slow in developing this season and are not yet quite up to the racing point. The trial of Locke and Lawrence in the 'Varsity and the poor health of Whitney have retarded the work to a great degree. Since being at their quarters on the Thames the men have suffered from an epidemic of sore throat but are at present in good health. Long practice rows have been impossible. In spite of these drawbacks, the crew is strong with good blade work and is steady, especially in rough water...
...Others see Us." The takeoff on Rattle at the Riverside Recreation Grounds is good, and the letter describing the drill at the "Sand Oldbonio" is cleverly patterned on the original. "An Everyday Fable" is rather more serious than ordinary Lampoon fiction. The short jokes in the number are very poor, in marked contrast to the longer articles. Many of these witticisms savor of old age, a failing which should be carefully avoided. Two more numbers of the Lampoon are yet to appear-one the Class Day and the other the Commencement issue...
Among the poor and wretched, in respectable society, in business, forces are at work about which it is not enough to say, "Touch not the unclean thing." On the contrary we must touch it, as salt touches decay, to check and overcome...
HARVARD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, June 15.- This afternoon Kernan went in at 2 in the 'Varsity boat, taking the place of Blake who has been in poor condition for the past few days...
...afternoon at Providence by a score of 14 to 3. The game brought out the best batting which the nine has shown this year, and if continued in the three remaining games, there is little doubt that the nine will successfully end a season, which started out with such poor prospects. Although during five different innings, Sedgwick pitched effective ball, in the third, with men on bases, he was hit at will for five runs. Woodworth was substituted in the eighth, when the 'Varsity again bunched enough hits to score four more runs...