Word: badly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same band would be Cow-boys one week, and Skinners the next, helping themselves to everything, now in the name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name...
These facts, we trust, the Corporation will give its attention to. The fire in Hollis, bad as it was, might have been much worse. Those who roomed in the building will suffer much inconvenience, but their pecuniary loss is small, thanks to those who were so energetic in rendering assistance. It has been suggested that a subscription should be made for the sufferers, but it seems to us that there is little need of such aid. What is needed is rooms for those who have lost their quarters. The best manner of supplying this need seems...
...Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...
...myself noticed this little peculiarity of our papers. I have watched them both of late, and I think now that there is a certain amount of truth in the remarks referred to; but I have failed to see why the peculiarity should be seriously objected to. It is undoubtedly bad taste to call attention in a marked and disagreeable way to the little failings of others and one's own superiority; but this, I think, is seldom, if ever, done...
...could not afford this advance is large, the other plan would be best, though more expensive to those who ordered extras. It is said that it would not do to make so marked a distinction between the richer and the poorer students; but does any one know of any bad result of the distinction that already exists between men who go to club tables and those who economize at Memorial...