Word: poore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Sophomore class yesterday afternoon, the following committee was appointed to send a letter of condolence to the parents of Edward Rawson, Jr., '09, who died Wednesday: L. K. Lunt, E. T. Wentworth, E. P. Currier, H. Goepper, W. Poor and F. A. Washburn...
...presentation of the comedy occupies about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled...
...cast of the play is: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M. K. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G. E. Hyde '09 Pepito, his friend, H. W. Packer 1L. Dona Paz, Consuelo's mother, J. Murdoch, Jr., 1G. Don Cleto, Pepe's father, G. Rivera, Jr., '09 Don Manuel, Pepito's millionaire uncle from Cuba, E. F. Schwartzenberg 2L. Domingo, negro servant to Don Manuel, D. N. Robinson...
Everyone has been given batting practice, but the pitchers have used nothing but straight balls and moderate speed. The batting, considering the poor light afforded in the Cage, has been encouraging. Most of the men time the ball fairly well, but there is still a marked tendency to pull away from the plate. The fielders have had nothing but straight grounders to handle and are fairly accurate, but their throwing is still very erratic...
...there are sports where the professional can defeat the amateur every time, such as baseball, rowing, and track athletics. When Yale employed Mr. Lush Harvard had a long string of baseball victories to her credit; yet in one season, Mr. Lush turned out a nine from poor material which defeated a Harvard nine of veteran calibre, coached under an amateur system. The converse, nearly, is true in rowing, though Mr. Wray had even a more difficult task, because he had to oppose a professional system of marked success. Yet Mr. Wray's success here and his superiority over his amateur...