Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most intimately interested in the athletic success of our teams. The utter inadequacy of the present fields to supply the space needed for the proper development of the different athletic teams has long been apparent. To this cause, almost as much as to any other, may be attributed the poor success of Harvard in athletic contests during recent years. Teams desiring to secure outdoor work have been compelled to use the fields at the most inconvenient hours, and this fact has deterred many men from training. The new field, with room for two football or baseball fields, will obviate this...
...before it was strong enough to bear. But now that the ice is four or six inches thick, this excuse for forbidding skating is no longer plausible. If the city of Cambridge is anxious to prevent accidents at the Pond, it seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double incentive for daring boys to skate on the Pond in defiance of the policeman who patrols the shore; and the chance of his getting on the ice is much greater than if he were allowed to skate...
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