Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What is the result? We have produced among us that class of men called grinds. These men, living witnesses to the effects of over-study, bring rational study into lowered repute. An association grows up between the thought of application to studies and the thought of men of poor health, unattractive appearance, and stiff manners...
...does not accomplish the end desired. - (a) Does away with only one branch of capitalism. - (1) Trusts and monopolies will not be affected. - (b) Would not relieve the burdens of the poor. - (1) Country poor will be weighted down by increased tax. - (2) City poor will merely be assessed by the state instead of the individual: Pop. Sci. Mo. XXXVI, 489. - (c) Tax has no basis in history or in practice. - (1) When it has been tried it has failed: Century XL, 385; Seligman in Jour. Soc. Sci. No. XXVII...
...spite of the list of veteran players, than the Harvard team. On the day that Harvard won from Cornell by the score of 22 to 12, Yale defeated West Point 12 to 5. A week later Yale scored but twelve points against Brown. There were two reasons for this poor showing. The veterans, feeling sure of their positions, saw no particular reason for playing hard; but the chief reason was that coaches had been rather scarce all the fall. Mr. Camp was especially missed. Hinkey was obliged to bear two burdens: that of captain, and that of coach...
...better individual players. Considering that one advantage pretty nearly offsets the other, a tie game would be a possibility but for one fact. Yale is far superior in kicking. This means a great deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick a goal from the field, while Butterworth is the most skillful drop kicker on any team today. Even...
...charity work of various kinds. At a meeting of the committee, with the advisory members, held last week, the following plans were offered: A shelf in the Library reading room will shortly be reserved for the current literature on the subject of Boys' Clubs, Visiting of Hospitals and the Poor, Charity Organizations, and other similar philanthropic movements. The committee propose to hold during the year several evening conferences open to all students, to be addressed by prominent specialists in charity work. After the principal address, the meetings will be thrown open for general discussion. Excursions, also, will be conducted...