Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...above is another example of sensational journalism. Where the Post gets such stories is a mystery, unless out of the fertile imagination of some poor emaciated penny-2-liner...
...busily engaged with other matters to think whether the book is due or not; he wishes to push all the responsibility and trouble on the librarian. It seems to us that these men ought to think of such things themsleves without being reminded; it is better that their poor brains be severely taxed, if necessary, than that the librarian should be obliged to notify all who use the library when their books...
...symposium at or about ten. We think, though they are colored, they are worthy of better treatment, since a laborer is worthy of his hire. What is said of one meal, can be truly said of all. We trust the association will see to that matter and help those poor fellows...
...hirelings, as we could hardly conceive it possible that worse food than was set before us was easily obtainable anywhere. However, this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites...
...Apropos of your editorial remark upon Prof. Palmer's answer to his critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter...