Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary...
...knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments of the principal...
...desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst...
...Optics and Acoustics. What we think is needed here are into courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little or no mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really pitiful to see the woeful ignorance of college men on subjects girl would be ashamed to confess her ignorance. Yet in Astronomy, a subject which should be familiar to every one, we are all practically unable to gain even the slightest knowledge, although our facilities for observation are unsurpassed, in this country at least...
...regards the general play of the eleven, it must be said that there is a woeful want of carefulness. It is the rule, not the exception, for the University to lose the ball when they get it within the college's 25-yard line. There are several reasons for this, to wit; the college understands their plays nearly as well as they do themselves, and then, again, there are five or six rushers who are always unguarded. These excuses are urgent; but yet we must admit that the misplays are oftener due to the inaccurate passing or the inability...