Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interested in athletics, was unanimous in condemning, and condemning strongly, this method of celebrating athletic victories. It will take but little argument to convince everyone that this is right, for most of the students we know are already opposed to it. Fire-arms and explosives are at best a poor way of celebrating and a wretched nuisance to Cambridge citizens. Often they are far more than a nuisance. It might frequently happen that at the time of the celebration some persons living near the Yard might be seriously ill, and perhaps dependent upon quiet for their lives. The firing...
...Christlike conception can most fifly be applied to the life of today. All those professions are religious which are spent in the service of man, and those are secular which are spent in the service of self. Nothing is more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most truly...
...College Nine was badly beaten by the Carter Base Ball Club at Franklin last Saturday. Although the College was decidedly weakened by the absence of Hayes, Bouve, and Clark, the men played a poor game, being unable to hit the ball at critical times, and fielding loosely...
...would necessitate taking away the partition between the present meeting room and the adjacent room in the other entry, and also the floor above. These changes will give a room of sufficient size for the Faculty meetings, and having much better ventilation, that of the present room being very poor...
...Selection, "Poor Jonathan," Millocker...