Word: badly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most beneficial in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Any man, however poor an oar, has the right to ask his (college) captain to send in his name to the Secretary of the 'Varsity; they are then tubbed once or twice by members of the 'Varsity, the hopelessly bad ones weeded out, and about three Eights taken down the river every day for a week or so. These three Eights, by another "weeding" process, are reduced to two, and go into training (under two of their members as captains) for from two to three weeks. Then they...
...reference, however, to "the temper of the age" I shall make, because it may thus be seen that the system of teaching which, in this day, puts Greek authors at a point so distant from us as to be discouraging to all and inaccessible to most is necessarily bad. A striking characteristic of the literature of our age is its sympathy with the Greek in thought and in feeling. There never was a time before when writers of English in almost all departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this...
...Virginia University Magazine contains much matter, but very little mind. The Denison Collegian is chiefly remarkable for bad spelling. The Dartmouth has begun to copy its puffs. The Yale Lit. is intensely literary, filling its columns with notices of various books written by Swinburne, Whitman, and a certain Mr. Thackeray...
...sometimes so open and barefaced as to arouse even the student's indignation. The price we pay for our books is outrageous, for an advance of almost twenty percent is asked for bringing them from the city. This is easily proved by comparing city prices with those demanded here. Bad as this is, it cannot be compared to the cold-blooded fraud perpetrated on us at the bank. Here for cashing all checks that are not indorsed by the Steward a deduction of almost one half per cent is made, and for this no excuse is offered. It is understood...
With the increased interest in rowing at Harvard, it seems too bad to banish these hard-earned colors to places where they are in danger of being defaced, if not ruined. They might be placed in Memorial Hall, Massachusetts, or some other Hall where they would meet with good care, be preserved, and awaken recollections of those days when friendly contestants struggled honorably for the first position in the College regatta...