Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they can without losing their good standing with the Military Office. The two who have been discharged are not the only ones who have deserved the penalty,--they were merely a little less proficient at the game of "getting by," and they are therefore set up as examples of poor spirit. Yet their cases, if they will teach others a lesson, will have been worth while. The average student has to have facts knocked into his head; most of us merely shrug our shoulders at these two incidents and thank our stars we are not the unfortunate ones...
...University Legal Aid Bureau, an organization of second and third-year Law men, who offer legal services free of charge to the poor of Cambridge, has opened a new department in connection with the recent Federal War Risk Insurance Act. A bureau of information and legal advice upon the complicated machinery of this new statue has been established by the organization at the headquarters of the Cambridge chapter of the Red Cross, 42 Brattle street. Of fice hours have been set from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday Friday afternoon. Members acquainted with insurance law will be present...
...between this number and various Advocates which I read in 1915 and 1916 is unnecessary. The remedy is in getting out the good literary material in the College. Every year I see some themes which are better than the majority of contributions to the College papers; but through either poor judgment of editors or indifference of writers, they never appear in the papers. Already this year in my war-shrunken class in "Composition" I have read three or four stories which seem to me better than any narrative in the present Advocate. If the fault has been with the editors...
...developed the military airplane to a remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom...
...heels of the ordnance embarrassment comes the news that the sanitary conditions in four of our camps are poor, that winter garments are lacking in many cases, and that much of the disease and especially of the pneumonia so prevalent in our camps is due entirely to inefficiency in supplying the men with the right kind of clothing at the right time. This state of affairs may and probably does exist in other cantonments, but Major-General Gorgas, the Surgeon-General of the Army, has only inspected four of the camps...