Word: poore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman track team defeated Phillips Andover Academy Saturday afternoon at Andover by the close score of 57 to 51 points. In spite of the poor condition of the track, the times in several events were unusually fast...
...where they had been practicing since Tuesday on the Exeter Academy track. They were to have remained until Saturday, but changed their plans on account of the heavy rain. The trip was very successful, a marked improvement being made by nearly all the men. Unfortunately the weather was poor throughout the stay, handicapping the field event men especially...
...smoker was a most enjoyable evening, filled with infinite jest; yet I fear Judge Grant in his preamble hit it off very well--"Why not trot the poor old scholar out?" There was a certain sign of patronage for the scholar on the part of the man of the world, in which the poet joined. I should have been glad if the dignity of scholarship had been a bit more emphasized...
...enough men to make up a team, Field was allowed to shoot twice. Each man shot at 50 birds, in strings of 25, and Lewis of the Freshman team was high man with two shoots of 21, a total of 42 birds. The conditions for the shoot were very poor, as there was a high wind which prevented good scores...
...abolish it entirely. It is inconsistent to say that a game is bad and yet allow it to be played. It looks to me as if these men reached their conclusion through an argument similar to this: "We're being defeated all the time at basketball. It is a poor game, therefore we had better abolish...