Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been reporting for daily practice. Prospects are discouraging. Candidates have come out for only nine of the 12 events which are usually included in the intercollegiate meet, and Coach Mack, the only professional who remains on the athletic staff at Yale, is disappointed at the poor showing...
...interest in Brooks House. More men and more money have been directed to its work than ever before. These men are engaged in teaching the future citizens of our land, they are leading boys to better lives and understanding; they are entertaining the blind; they are supporting the poor at law; they are supplying the needy; they are indeed the builders of a better society. College men seem to have taken a new hold on the real problems of life. In their added interest and increased support is found the success of the institution...
...subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers. Artillery, signal corps and engineer officers are just as urgently needed. Let the colleges devoted to these varying interests poor their resources. Let the infantry of Harvard, the artillery of Yale and the engineering of Technology join forces in another great effort to meet the di- verse needs of a country at last seriously...
...come from nations alive to their international obligations, jealous of their national integrity, scrupulous as to their general honor, the world might be cheered by the hope that, presently, when the scales had fallen from deluded but honest eyes, we might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance...
...invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor end of a bad score...