Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This was rather discouraging for the freshmen, but they did not lose heart, attributing a large part of the score to the wind. At first it seemed as if this was a poor excuse, for the moment the ball was put in play it went down towards the freshmen's goal, and soon eighty-six had the ball down right under eighty-nines' goal posts. Fisk tried for a goal from the field, but he failed to estimate the power of the wind properly, and the attempt was unsuccessful. This gave the freshmen the kick-off at the twenty-five...
...over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch...
...wish to call the attention of every member of the freshman class to the lacrosse team which has just been formed, and urge upon them the importance of fall practice. It was to the lack of this that '88 owed its poor success in the field last season. The present freshman class has plenty of good materiel within its ranks, and it should all be brought out. There is nothing discouraging in the fact that so few men are acquainted with the game, for, outside the preparatory schools of Boston and vicinity, few have a chance to see it played...
...trustees of Williams College held a meeting recently, and voted President Carter an indefinite vacation. It is understood that this is caused by President Carter's health, which has been poor of late, and not because of any dissatisfaction on either side. The college never had so large a membership as now, and the present freshman class is the largest ever in the college...
...library which contains more than 500,000 volumes. No order, no catalogue, excepting volume upon volume of written memoranda which in themselves cover many shelves, opens a way for the student to so much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard at 11.45 on Tuesday...