Word: weak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Centre and right have thus far been filled by substitutes. White plays centre-field and change pitcher. His pitching is effective though rather wild, but his batting is weak. Weak batting is also Keep's principal fault. He plays an exceptionally fine right field and is a good base runner...
...freshmen played an uninteresting game with the Adams Academy nine on Saturday. The batting of the Adams nine was weak, while that of the freshmen was very heavy. Fargo and Loud excelled in fielding for Adams. For the freshmen, Allen and Chamberlain led in batting, Phillips, Edgerly and Smith in fielding. Following is the score...
...most prominent weak point is the lack of competent and sufficient instruction in the branches which fit one for the duties of citizenship. Though the departments of history and political economy are crowded with students, yet in the former United States history is almost entirely neglected, while in political economy there is but one instructor for every 100 students, as against an average for the whole university of one teacher to 9 scholars, (163 instructors, 1,428 students.) What is needed in these departments is an increase in the amount of instruction, instructors of learning and reputation, and courageous, fairminded...
...current North American Review is an article from the pen of Rossiter Johnson, on "College Endowments." The writer asserts that the establishment of small and weak colleges throughout the country has not been a mistake, as is sometimes stated, but has been the means of diffusing the greatest possible amount of learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three...
...writer, however, seems to forget that the larger colleges, like Harvard and Yale, have much better facilities for furnishing the much-talked-of "practical" education, than do his "small and weak colleges." They, like our high and grammar schools, are of the greatest importance in promoting education, but to maintain that there is no need of universities like our own, where "the purpose is to impart a high scholarly finish to the accomplishments of a privileged class," seems to be going a little...