Word: poorly
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...concentration of intellect, which has given rise to inventions of machinery. In the manufacture of machinery the same principle as that which governs any social system holds-it is not the individual skill of a workman which counts, for a good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive and directing brain. Therefore there is no reason why laborers should receive a greater...
...final game of the scrub hockey series Thayer defeated the Lemons in the Stadium yesterday afternoon by a score of 2 to 1. The ice was in very poor condition because of the snow, and any team work and fast playing was impossible...
...University basketball team will play the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this evening at 8 o'clock in the Gymnasium. The University team has lost its last two intercollegiate games with Princeton and Columbia, respectively, for the most part on account of the poor work of the forwards...
...Freshman hockey team was defeated yesterday afternoon by St. Paul's School at Concord, by the score of 3 to 2. The game was close and exciting in spite of the poor ice. Morgan played well for the Freshmen...
Between the halves of the Andover game last night, the Freshman basketball team defeated the Brown freshmen by the score of 25 to 19. But for inexcusably poor shooting Brown would have won easily as their team work and handling of the ball was much superior to that of the Harvard Freshmen, who seldom carried the ball down the floor by systematic team work. For Harvard Wallace played the best game. Swaffield, Brown's left forward, played a hard, accurate game and did the most effective work for his team...