Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because it is a direct training for the work of active life...
...envy the elaborate hospitality of their richer class-mates; and the inevitable result would be that they would cease to entertain at all. Class Day would thus become a mere fashionable show, full of extravagance; a festival which the rich man would naturally enjoy, but which the poor man would have no share in. Any change which could lead to such a state of affairs can be regarded only as the worst evil which could possibly befall...
...classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would be no longer the dear and beautiful festival which it has been for more than fifty years...
...second of the series of indoor handicap games were held in the Casino last Thursday. The records were rather poor, largely owing to the fact that the heating apparatus was being repaired and consequently the building was not heated. The only no table performance was the shot putting of R. Garrett '97, who broke the Princeton record, putting the 16 lb. shot...
...prospects for the Freshman Glee Club are at present somewhat better than they were. At the first two trials for candidates, the material was so poor that no effort was made to form a club from it. At a third trial, however, which was held Tuesday evening the showing was a good deal better. Nearly forty candidates tried and among them there was some fairly good material. From this number the following twenty-four men were taken on for further trial...