Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curriculum, etc., were practically the same. The one word which best expresses the difference between Harvard of today and Harvard in the sixties is simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons...
...class team and several have had no experience at all. R. Livermore who played halfback on Hopkinson School team last fall and K. S. Barnes of the Cambridge Latin, both of whom expect to enter as freshmen next year, were among the candidates. The ground was in very poor condition so that it was hard for the men to get any sharp practice. Captain Wrightington, however, tried the backs at passing and kicking, while the line men were taught how to break through and fall on the ball...
...lecture will be followed with a reading of Miss Jewett's "The Town Poor...
...lecture will be followed with a reading of Miss Jewett's "The Town Poor...
There is another evil and a much more serious one that it will be well to speak of again and that is the poor ventilation of the recitation rooms. With the rapidly increasing number of men who are forced to use these rooms, the present system of ventilation has become almost intolerable. If the truth were told it would probably be shown that a large proportion of the cases of sickness that occur during the college year may be traced directly to these ill-ventilated rooms. Such a state of things is deplorable, and it cannot be excused...