Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...armies and the armies of our allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work, middling fair constituents of the rank and file...
...believe that military service is not the only form which it may take. We have problems here at home which will continue with us, war or no war, and which will be neglected in the excitement. I refer especially to the housing, feeding and medical care of the poor in our large cities, to the prevention of disease, to the improvement of labor conditions and innumerable others. Some of us may choose such service in preference to military training, even though the cry of coward will continue to be raised...
...entire proceeds of the concert tonight will be given to "The Little House," a settlement house conducted for the poor of the crowded tenement district of South Boston...
...realize just how far their derision will go until we read something of the nature of Mr. Carpenter's effort. This much we may say: The most of it is such arrant and superficial satire as to lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter? And, by the way, the supposed "sop" he throws out to our outraged feelings in his last paragraph is wholly unnecessary...
Junior.--Bow, Jordan; 2, Briggs; 3, Storer; 4, Poor; 5, Burr; 6, Weld; 7, Williams; stroke, Balch; cox., Hawkins...