Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...universal athletics, voluntary or compulsory. The need of physical education is well stated in Dr. Bradford's article seeking to inculcate the opinion "that recreation is advisable as well as some daily exercise, that dissipation is wrong, that excess leads to mental impairment, and that indigestion is indication of poor health." Dr. Sargent considers the successful instruction in physical exercise given in Hemenway Gymnasium during the summer school sufficient warrant for fuller official recognition, and points out the field in which educated athletic directors can be of great service...
...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities...
Coach Sexton has decided to use Felton in the box and will revert to the old line-up with Young catching and Clark at second. The team has been some what handicapped this week on account of the poor weather, and has been unable to work out since the game with the Pilgrims on Wednesday...
...Poor work on the bases at critical moments was responsible for the defeat of the Harvard second baseball team, 4 to 3, by the Lawrence High School team at Lawrence yesterday afternoon. The fact that Harvard made more hits, fewer errors, and had eleven men left on bases goes to show that the game was quite unsatisfactory. In the ninth inning the score might have been tied but for the poor base running. Boyle and Macdonald pitched for Harvard...
...runs. The game was a pitchers' battle between Felton and Captain Imlay in which Felton had the better, striking out twelve men and allowing only five hits. The Pennsylvania pitcher also performed well, but the fact that two of Harvard's runs resulted from errors is witness to the poor support which he received. The feature of the game was a remarkable throw by Coleman in the first, catching Alsop at the home plate...