Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...permission to have new lockers constructed. This most reasonable request has been refused, because, forsooth, if these lockers were built, it might possibly happen that all of them would not be taken, and thus a needless expense would devolve upon the already overburdened treasury of the college. Alas, poor college...
...well rendered, the weird character of the piece being carefully observed by the director. The Symphony in D m'nor by R. Volkmann, has been heard in Cambridge before, and requires no comment. Its broad character was sustained throughout, and but for slight unevenness among the strings and rather poor phrasing in the reed and wind, the overture would have been admirably given...
...interested in rifle practice are invited to come. None need stay away for fear of making a poor score...
...Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...Hall meals, especially luncheons, are slowly becoming worse and worse. It is evident that while the waiting list is so large as it is at present, there need be no fear on the part of the Steward at seeing men leaving, and he can consequently make the food as poor as he wishes without danger of lessening the large number of men who eat in the Hall. It was but to-day that the cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than any substance of nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such...