Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German complains that a poor man's son cannot go to college at Yale because it costs so much. He wrote to the members of the graduating class at Yale, and from the 109 answers received he found that the average cost for the four years...
...Yale Freshman Nine played a four-inning practice game with the Consolidated nine last week. The score was eight to eight. The batting and fielding was poor on the part of both teams...
...Yale, the hardest work is required. Thus far, in practice, their work has not been such as would warrant any high expectations of victory. It has been fairly good; but when one has said that, he has said all that can be said in their praise. Their batting is poor and this defect can be overcome only by constant practice. Their fielding has been good and this partially makes up for the lack of strong batsmen on the nine. '90 has a captain of experience and ability who will bring victory out of defeat, if it is a possible thing...
...Yale University nine returned from its Easter trip on Thursday, having played six games with professional clubs. The nine did rather better work than had been expected, but disappointed their friends by their poor fielding. They made on their trip fifty-eight. base hits, with a total of seventy-five, against eighty-one hits, total ninety-three, by their professional opponents. They scored 29 runs to their opponents' 68, and made 50 errors, an average of eight per game. They would undoubtedly have made a considerably better showing but for several accidents to members of the team, which prevented...
...half, and the team has played in two practice games. Judging from the practice work and the playing in the games, Harvard will have a very weak team in the field this year, unless a decided improvement is made. The fielding of the infield has been very poor, most of the errors in the games being inexcusable. From the present outlook the team will lose the championship through poor fielding. - Boston Herald...