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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The gymnasium may be a good place to increase the muscle, but that physical gain will hardly compensate for the loss in towels, soap, and other paraphernalia necessary for gymnasium work, which some poor individual seems to be continually suffering. I am one of the several miserable wretches who, thinking that the crossbars above the lockers in the lower part of the building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/20/1887 | See Source »

...with them. But why should we allow a state of things to exist at all, which infuses bitterness into the lives of many of our fellow-students? It need take no great sacrifice on our part to be genial and kind to worthy fellow-students, even if they are poor and of a rough exterior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/13/1887 | See Source »

...supplement of the last number of Harper's Weekly is devoted to pictures treating of the Harvard-Yale game. The centerpiece represents the Yale eleven, but the likeness are very poor. The cuts of coaches and their occupants, taken from photographs are very good, and many familiar faces are easily recognized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1887 | See Source »

...doing. There is absolutely no excuse for such nonsense; it exceeds the bounds of childishness, it is undignified and ungentlemanly. It has always been our policy to aid the students in every possible way by publishing notices of their meetings and other notices; and it is but a poor return to compromise us by such utterly idiotic practices. We appreciate a good joke as much as anyone, but there is such a thing as going too far, and we hope the offense will not be repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1887 | See Source »

...poor X, this is only the beginning. As time goes on, many men whom he had formerly considered his friends slight him. He begins to feel a sense of lonesomeness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extract from Senior Class Dinner Oration. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

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