Word: poore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of all students interested in social service has been called at Phillips Brooks House next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Prominent Massachusetts charity workers will outline the field for service among the poor and foreign of Boston, and several undergraduate speakers will point out some of the opportunities for such work...
...course, so unusual an experiment has had its critics. For instance, some think the accommodations too uniform; some complain that it will be a hardship on the very poor boys, who will no longer be able to shrink into remote quarters and hide their poverty. The answer to this is that the poor boy may learn in the cheerful air of comradeship, which should prevail here, that poverty implies no disgrace and is nothing to apologize for. To us the criticisms are hardly worth considering in comparison with the high aim, the democratic results, certain to be achieved...
...University possesses a large number of funds the income of which is applicable to the maintenance of poor students. These aids are reserved for students who need pecuniary support in winning their education, and are allotted only to young men of proved capacity and decided promise. Such aids are desirable at Harvard in all Departments; because every student is required to pay a tuition fee, which varies in the different departments from a hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred dollars a year, a fee which does not pay more than half the actual cost of educating the average student...
...against the University team last year but who was removed from the box after he had passed the first man to face him, will be in the box today. He pitched first class ball at New Haven earlier in the season but lost the game on account of the poor support from his team mates. In Captain Swain on third and Ainslee on second base, the visitors have two of the best infielders in collegiate baseball. Swain is also a heavy hitter, and on former occasions has caused considerable uneasiness for the Harvard pitchers...
...admit that there is truth in it, when one considers how well the University team started the season and how soundly it was beaten by Dartmouth yesterday. However, the loss of one game or even of several games does not mean that the team is demoralized by overconfidence or poor condition. It is the inevitable slump, and a team that has showed the baseball ability displayed by Captain Wingate's nine in most of its games this year is bound to come out of its slump before long...