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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Harvard thought the exception was therefore a bad one to make; and, moreover, that it might give Columbia a decided advantage over Harvard, - an advantage which our record for the past five or six years has not placed us in a position to yield. Accordingly, a reply was made to Columbia that she could have no advantage which Harvard did not have under her agreements with Yale. Columbia replied that she would "row only a university race," and she desired an answer to her original challenge. An answer was immediately sent, - a refusal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLUMBIA MATTER. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...pretty bad sign when at this late day a man walks boldly up to the southwest door of the Library before he discovers his mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...have already, among our exchanges, the Trinity Tablet, the Boston Beacon, the Lasell Leaves, and Monthly Musings; why do we not all make use of "apt alliteration's artful aid"? We might have "Yale Yelps," "Vassar Voices," "Cornell Criticisms" (not a bad name for the Era), "The Bowdoin Bore," and "The Princeton Puritan," "Dartmouth Diggings," "Amherst Attempts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...possessed has been sacrificed to making it larger, but apparently it is not yet large enough. Though I do not wish to find any unnecessary fault, I cannot pass by in silence two discomforts with which all who use the Library must be acquainted: the ventilation is often very bad, the atmosphere close and impure; and most of the chairs which are provided are such as adorn an Irish kitchen, but are wholly unsuited to a fine Library. Let us have good air, good chairs, and plenty of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE LIBRARY COMFORT. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...manner) of illustrations, the Courant copies the Lampoon, its items, entitled "Yalensicula," flavor strongly of the Boston Transcript. The imitation in this case is more successful; if the Courant's illustrations are not nearly so good as the Lampoon's, its items, in style and taste, are almost as bad as the Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

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