Word: poore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening game of the season for the Freshman hockey seven with St. Mark's School was not played yesterday afternoon because of poor ice conditions. As both the St. Mark's and 1922 schedules have been filled, the two sevens probably will not face each other this season...
Yesterday afternoon, practice for both Freshman and University teams was held on the low-board rink on the Charles, on account of the poor condition of the ice on the Charlesbank rink. A practice scrimmage between the University and Freshman teams was held and many substitutions were made so that all the men in each squad could play...
Professor Mather Abbot, Yale's faculty crew coach, who will again take charge of the squad, has outlined Yale's rowing policy for the coming year as follows: "No matter how poor an oar a man may prove, there will always be a crew for him to row on; a coach to instruct him, and a final race for him to row in at the close of the season. The coaches will never dismiss a man from the river...
...however, he should look into the matter thoroughly he could probably assign the cause of his missed opportunities to a poor understanding of his elementary courses. May we blame the instructors for this phenomenon? Considering the American system of education in its entirety it would be impossible to assert that preparatory courses are as generally inefficient as the information of the men would seem to indicate. And yet it is not right to place all the blame on the student. Perhaps the inducement to the intelligent appreciation of a course are not what they should...
When we think of our poor grounding and of the good we might have had from a given study the phrase that comes to us is "If I had only known!" If we had only known what fine things lay ahead how much better would have been our beginning. And yet how were we to tell? How were we to know when we started our beginners' Latin or Greek, studying the dullest sort of composition, of the glories of classic thought and poetry. This purposeless choice and following of our elementary courses can account for more wasted time than...