Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...visiting friend as the Garden street horse car passed by the Common, where a decidedly seedy looking lot of town boys, with a negro at the bat, were indulging in the national game. "I wonder the teachers don't have their trousers mended," said the visitor reflectively; "the poor boys have no mothers to do it for them! Couldn't the girls in the Annex find time to do a little sewing for the lads?" - Cambridge Chronicle...
...seemed utterly unable to do anything in the Andover game. He gave seventeen men bases on balls, several times when the bases were full, and let in many more runs by his wild pitches. Exeter played a good game at first, until the nine became thoroughly discouraged at the poor playing of their pitcher and lost all life. Andover evidently went in to win. She played a strong game in the field from the beginning to the end. At the bat she had nothing to do but to wait for bases on balls, or, when Dillon managed...
...regatta committee has decided upon the men who shall represent the University in the race with Yale. The crew has rowed for no length of time together, and consequently, are in poor form. This lack of experience and practice will be done away with by the day of the race. The men, individually are all good. They...
...eighth, Harvard failed to score, mostly on account of poor coaching. Bingham made his third consecutive hit, but was put out in a foolhardy attempt to steal second. For Yale, the men were retired in one' two, three order...
There seems to be a good deal of grumbling in college about the record made by the athletic team on Saturday but the poor showing is easily explained if all the circumstances are taken into account. How is it possible for an athletic team with no money to support it and with no sympathy from the college to encourage it, to compete with teams which have all the money and support necessary? If those men who talk about our "hard luck" or "our poor team" will compare the way they treat their team with the way the other colleges treat...