Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objection, however; it is apt to be mistrusted. What Mr. Bolles has done is past mistrust. Taking the facts of the University as they are, he has merely recorded them in such a way that they will be understood by everyone. His statement of the position of a poor man at Harvard, for example, is at once most explicit and just. The University needs no more justification before the public than this. If people can only recognize, as the Secretary has tried to make them do, what the true nature of Harvard is, the University can then speak for itself...
...pitchers as a rule are too light and lack speed. The catchers are good backstops, but as far as the work in the cage shows are poor throwers. The men as a whole lack snap and put very little heart into their work. They do not go in as if they realized that two important games with Yale and perhaps one with Princeton are to be played which can be won only by faithful and hard work. There is a tendency to shirk the sliding and running especially. About 18 men will be kept practising during the Easter vacation...
...under no compulsion to impart all their knowledge; Nation, XVI, 234. - 12) They could not be expected to furnish detailed information on demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good speakers could mislead; Morrill, 422. - (5) The committee system would continue to control legislation: Hart, Atlantic, LVII. 380; Hoar, North Amer. Review, CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private...
...received by Senator Stanford for the horse Arion, has been divided into 125 lots, to help poor students who desire to go through the Stanford University...
...Faults of the crew on the whole are that they fail to get around the water on the catch, keep poor time, are slow with their hands, and in starting their slides, are inclined to rush the last part of their recover, and do not pull their blades through at the same depth...