Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...till April. The reason is, that men get "rowed out" and utterly "stale" if they are kept at it without intermission, and a three or four months' absolute rest from work at the oar is found most beneficial in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Any man, however poor an oar, has the right to ask his (college) captain to send in his name to the Secretary of the 'Varsity; they are then tubbed once or twice by members of the 'Varsity, the hopelessly bad ones weeded out, and about three Eights taken down the river every...
...little boys in story-books open valuable volumes in quest of traditional dollar-bills between the leaves, but many a volume is never opened or even taken from its shelf in some libraries. Cheap literature is not for such epicures as these; they must take their learning, as the poor, sick homeopathics do, in sugar-coated form. The binding of a book improves its appearance, but we must be cautious in judging by appearances, for a table of logarithms may be bound in full calf...
...reading man wants to have his library well stocked on his "hobby," but yet not entirely deficient in everything else. When we study one thing excessively we need relaxation, or sad consequences will ensue. One poor man read too much Gibbon, and he is now in a "decline...
These are poor arguments for some. They presuppose a grain of love for our college bricks and a spark of life still lingering in that poor ghost of a "glass feeling." But I offer them as an appeal to our better feelings...
...colleges of the United States contain, it seems, less than this number. In speaking of this abundance of small fry, the editor of the magazine says: "It is true that we are probably wasting force by multiplying the number of such institutions. One good one is better than five poor ones. It is not certain, however, that it is true that one large one is better than five small ones." He thinks, too, that "the bottom of all difficulties in the higher education here . . . . is the difficulty of obtaining first-rate teachers in large enough numbers." This difficulty seems...