Word: poore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...away by the sheer force of another's personality, he begins to believe that there must be something in what that other is teaching. The biggest men generally try to find out what one does know instead of what one does not know. Under such conditions it is a poor student indeed who does not respond to the stimulant...
...first wounded American dough-boy to come into our hands set the entire Unit in ecstasies of delight--every Harvard man swelled with pride--not because the poor fellow's wounds amounted to anything in themselves, but because they were a positive, visible proof to our British companions that America was in the war. Every member of our Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout...
...Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". Great is our pity for the poor Tiger who has to face the claws of the female of the species thoroughly aroused. For wonder of wonders, Princeton, our valiant rival is going to be locked in struggle with Vassar--in a debate...
...wish to be fair in this approaching struggle between beauty and beast. But unfortunately we can predict the victor and we cannot restrain our inner feelings of commiseration when the poor old Tiger passes out at the count...
...says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes the way for those behind. If a student is merely "getting by" he is a liability to himself and to the University whose advantages he simply prevents someone else from obtaining. The win-the-war need...