Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...POOR Colin Clout has given away...
...were opposed to those of the college. The New York Herald says that the article in our sporting column was instrumental in causing Cornell to withdraw her challenge. The withdrawal of that challenge is a subject of regret; but we must confess that Cornell has availed herself of a poor pretext, if, as is currently reported, she has made use of our sporting column for that purpose. The position of the two colleges is this: if Oxford accepts Harvard's challenge, we must go abroad and row her, and we must go entirely without reference to winning or losing...
...Batter, Junior, respectfully petitions to be excused from morning prayers, as, on account of neuralgic headache, be cannot retire before one A. M., and early rising causes a swimming sensation in the head, followed by nausea." Granted. The poor fellow has my sympathy...
...Freddy Milksop, Freshman, wants to know if you won't please excuse his absence this morning from Divine worship, as it was raining very, very hard, and he had left his rubbers home." Granted. poor little fellow! I wonder how such a fragile plant got through his Freshman year? Did the cruel Sophomores haze him? Did he have to furnish beer to them? Did he come to an untimely end, or did the college life make...
...matter of scholarships, Harvard would do well to imitate Oxford. All of these - more than 700 in number and bringing in an aggregate of pound 60,000 annually - are bestowed for knowledge alone, and are sought as earnestly by the sons of the wealthy as by the poor. They average about pound 65 a year. This is one example of the determination at Oxford to draw no line between rich and poor. It has its swells and its snobs, but whatever they may import in that way is absolutely unrecognized by university and college law and administration...