Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bedfords. Owing to injuries received in practice, Winsor was disabled, and Delano, who replaced him behind the bat, was unable to face-Folsom's swift delivery. Nunn played a plucky uphill game in the field, and Howe made three fine base-hits, but the rest of the batting was poor. The following is the score...
...Freshmen think that the college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...
WHEN some poor heart that lives a-chill and dull...
...that all? I shall have to leave the Hall; it's almost as bad as Mrs. Morgan's, when poor, dear great-grandpapa was in college. Was n't that a charming dress that the presidentess wore at her recitation in Etiquette 13, this afternoon...
There is a feeling not uncommon among boys leaving our higher schools, and often shared by their parents, that Harvard is a good enough college for the rich or for the poor; but that those who can make no profession of belonging to either of these classes may as well think of going elsewhere. This impression undoubtedly finds explanation, if not justification, in the conditions required from competitors for the well-advertised "prizes" which we have been considering, together with the great increase in the rent of desirable rooms. Now, if this latter policy is to be continued...