Word: poorness
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...first game resulted in our favor by a score of 14 to 9, but last Saturday the Live Oaks turned the tables on us. A glance at the score will tell the whole story, - sharp fielding and weak batting on the part of our opponents, and fair batting, but poor fielding, by our nine...
...have you heard about poor Bill? Ah, well, it was a shame...
...season will take place. These races have always been very interesting, but we think they might be made still more so if they were between scratch club-crews. As they have been heretofore conducted, they have been more like tub than boat races. The rowing has been very poor, and the number of fouls from the beginning to the end have been innumerable. If crews from the clubs only were allowed to enter the race, it strikes us the race would be more exciting. The danger of fouling can be entirely done away with by having two stake-boats instead...
...Acta Columbiana has a correspondent in Princeton who has but one trait that is praiseworthy. He is modest, although his command of the English language is limited. He fills five columns with trivial events of life at Princeton, and concludes: "I hope that those who have a poor opinion of the College from reading this letter will lay the blame to the writer." We shall take him at his word...
...large number of the inhabitants, we should judge some five thousand, were compelled by the Legislature to board together. A vast amount of murmuring was the natural result. Almost every paper speaks of it. The price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials...