Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...friend in C. H. I returned to the room in the morning, however, in time to wake Sam for the examination. I did not in the least mind finding three fellows in my bed and two on the lounge, but took these little matters as a matter of course. Poor Sam! that night was a finishing touch to his chances of being dropped, and in August a note from the Dean put an end to his and my vacation pleasure...
...know the Bowdoin Orient will improve, we feel no scruples in saying that the present number is poor. A threadbare poem opens the number; there is also a poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form...
...corrupted by the evil influences of that sinful place. This objection, however, was groundless, since the strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere trifle in itself) had destroyed the Harvard Nine, and that none but Yale and Princeton were left...
...military caps, marching in step like a regiment. This is the life of a college or lyceum. The food is generally sufficient, but of little variety. The tuition is according to age, - 800, 1,000, or 1,200 francs a year. The state provides some moneys to assist poor and meritorious students. The long vacation lasts two months, from the first of August through September. There is also a short vacation between Christmas and New Year's day, and a few days at Easter...
...other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been called upon to deplore; and by a few, perhaps, who, though certainly believing that Harvard would make but a poor show in the contest, wish that she had taken part in it, in the hope that thus, at least, the Faculty might be convinced of our needs and shamed into adequately providing for them. What could we gain from college instruction in oratory? Every one will acknowledge that the elements which...