Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessary to put policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because he tried to evade the law by having plain cake. At last the authorities in despair took to scheming. They voted that commencement time should be changed, and that it should be more private than usual, and that the day set apart for this anniversary...
...they can usethey are as helpless as ourselves. Gore Hall needs to be remodeled, if not partly rebuilt; for the light in the daytime, except on the brightest days, is very deficient and ill-arranged. The library authorities have such a scheme in consideration, but it clearly would be poor policy to commence the undertaking before they have enough money to carry it through. The proper place, it seems to me, to start the sentiment that is the kind of bequest most needed just now, is right here among the undergraduates...
...rules set down by the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, those rules provide that such players shall be ruled off the field. It is all very well for these gentlement to claim that the foul tackle was an accident, or did not happen at all, but it is a poor excuse to attribute the loss of the same to the decision of a referee who is an acklowledged authority on matters pertaining to foot-ball. As a matter of fact, at the very time when Cowan was ruled off, our men had approached very near to Princeton 's goal...
...Other meetings will be held-probably in Sever 11-at intervals of about three weeks. At some of them addresses will probably be given by Professor Palmer, Professor Peabody and others of the professors who have declared interest in the plan. Methods of work by college students among the poor will also be discussed. To make these meetings successful it is necessary that they have the cordial support of all who are in sympathy with the purposes for which they are held...
...Young Men's Christian Association held a meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss methods for uplifting the poor in Boston. Professor F. G. Peabody made some remarks on the subject...