Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recess. As vacation this year comes a week later than usual, it is necessary for the proper regulation of the series that the first games be played during the week after the recess. The handful of men that have already signed up at Leavitt & Peirce's is a very poor showing in comparison to the two or three hundred who usually participate in the series...
...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
...Although this year's team has an altogether new personnel from last year's, it is fully as strong, if not stronger and should make a very creditable showing. Columbia has won the championship for the last two years but so far this year her team has shown poor form and is not considered as having championship ability...
Fifth crew.--Stroke, Silverman; 7, Goddard; 6, McIndoe; 5, Allen, 4, Poor; 3, Robb; 2, Goodale; bow, Frazer; cox., Keith...
...Cornell there are some 625 men competing for the varsity teams and 425 for the freshman teams, in addition to the 700 men registered in other athletics. There are few men who do not at some time or other compete for a team, and there is no man so poor that a try is not worth while. Such has been the general attitude. This would seem to silence any doubts of those who deplore "an athletic aristocracy...