Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News speaking editorially of the prospect of the freshman nine, says: "We hope that '90 will take a lesson from its poor work in foot-ball and place in the field next spring a team of which the university will not be ashamed...
Heidelberg is poor, and some of its younger men are very poorly paid, but the smallest income of any full professsor is about $1,500. If this seem small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The friends of our university read with surprise an article entitled "Poor Harvard Students," in the Boston Herald of January 3. Permit me to quote certain statements that were made in it: "There are at least eight men out of the twenty-five who took-scholarships in the junior class at Harvard last year who could have well got along without them...
...Poor old Harvard seems to be getting it on all sides just now to pay up for the good time she had during the 250th Anniversary. During that brief period of sweetness and light, enough good things were said about her and enough flattery was bestowed upon her to have turned the head of any less sensible old lady. But she only smoothed her dress a bit, put a new crimson ribbon on her cap, and blushed with modest pride...
...have poor Jaby out of jail...