Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vocation chosen by a young man is governed oftener by accident than inclination. But the manner in which it is pursued is controlled neither by luck nor chance. The liberal professions are crowded with incompetents. I know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when...
...game was a highly creditable one to our eleven, in spite of the poor showing we made the last time we made the last time we went to the bat. To lead the University of Pennsylvania even for one innings at cricket is a feat of which we may well be proud. The wicket played well and the attendance gratifying. The score...
Columbia was blanked for the first five innings. In the sixth, she scored from a scratch hit by Welch and a three-base hit by McCabe. In the eighth inning she made one more run from a base on balls, a poor throw from home to second and an overthrow from Boyden to Quackenboss...
...accounts and statistics in Mr. Hurd's book are very interesting and significant. Writing concerning the year 1873, Mr. Hurd says: "In the last Harvard game at Cambridge, Yale was completely out-played, making but three base-hits off the Harvard pitcher, while the Yale fielding was so poor that 29 runs were made on 18 base hits. The final score stood 29 to 5. With this disastrous game ended the chain of light defeats which Yale experienced from Harvard. Up to the end of '73 there can be no doubt that the Harvard nines were uniformly better than...
...self-assertion compromised by marriage is the theme. But beside others, the story has this additional merit, that, as the writer says-and no one after reading would attempt to contradict him-the plot is founded on facts. The reader finishes the story with nothing but pity for the poor, insulted little Frenchman, brought by love to mediocrity; and is forced for a time on this one phase of life so well depicted...