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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard won as much through the poor fielding of the Tufts players, who made eleven errors, as through the playing of her own nine. Only four of the eighteen runs were earned runs. The men all hit the ball, however, there being but four strike outs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 18; TUFTS, 6. | 4/17/1896 | See Source »

Yale beat Wesleyan Saturday by a score of 11 to 7. Wesleyan had a winning lead till the eighth inning when she threw it away by poor team work. Smith, Yale's substitute pitcher, was hit hard in the first three innings. He retired in favor of Trudeau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Defeats Wesleyan. | 4/13/1896 | See Source »

...expenses of a student were rather large. Judge Grant estimated that he spent $1,000 each of his first two years, and somewhat more during the last two. As the regulation board was very poor, most of the students preferred club tables, where they paid $8 a week for board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN THE SEVENTIES. | 4/11/1896 | See Source »

...died in Baltimore Monday last. After graduating at Harvard he began to study law, but in 1850 suddenly became blind. During the Civil War he took sides with the South and was imprisoned. After the war he engaged in business and has long been active in helping the poor and the charities of Baltimore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 4/6/1896 | See Source »

...Poor House, Henry Alexander Phillips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Monthly. | 4/4/1896 | See Source »

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