Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The boat house belonged to the college authorities and was rented by them to the boat club. Originally, it must be remembered, the various halls such as Matthews and Weld, supported boat crews and the boat houses were owned by them. In time these organizations became very much in debt...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Class after class graduates and leaves us, but there is one class of men who seem to stay with us in the most single-hearted fashion, who have made Harvard their permanent camping ground. Their numbers and influence increase year by year; they are a bane and...
Although Yale played a strong game, Harvard's defeat was undoubtedly due to the wretched inefficiency of the umpires and referee furnished by Yale. The following men played for Yale: McDowell, Cottell, Ayers, Lincoln, Connell, McCormick, McHenry, Bertron, Rollins, Mallon, Twombly and Spencer. The Harvard team was the same as...
The freshman nine defeated the Exeter nine at Exeter yesterday by a score of 18 to 11. The game was marked by wretched fielding on both sides and no very heavy batting. For the first three innings Harvard played a faultless game, retiring the Exeter players in one, two, three...
The New York Post inveighs against the custom so prevalent in American colleges of paying professors the lowest possible salaries. The tendency to the scholar's life, it says, is not very strong among our young men at best, but nothing better calculated to diminish it could well be hit...