Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...others only in a most unsatisfactory manner, shows them to be very inefficient men for their places. A part of this inefficiency is doubtless due to the fact that each janitor wishes to make as much money as possible, and therefore hires the cheapest, which is the poorest, help, - in most cases recommended by an intelligence office. On this account, too, changes are constantly taking place, and one cannot tell, when he goes to bed, who will come in the morning to make his fire and set his room in order. To this fact, more than any other...
...MEMBER of the Faculty is authority for the statement that '83 is in point of scholarship the best class that has been here for years, but a most prominent member of the Faculty is also authority for the statement that '82 is the poorest...
HARVARD VS. BROWN.After the brilliant game of Saturday, we naturally expected to beat Brown, on Tuesday, June 1, but the game turned out to be one of the poorest our Nine has played this year. The Brown nine excelled us at every point, and at one time it looked as though we should be whitewashed, without making a safe hit. Folsom and Winsor were both injured during the game, but not so severely as to prevent them from finishing it, or to excuse our bad playing. Shattuck at first did the best work for Harvard in the field, and White...