Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...move, Mr. President," said a venerable and benevolent-looking professioner, "that the entire sum be expended in plank walks, in order that the students may attend morning prayers and recitations in bad weather without danger of taking cold...
...explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration the number of men in the University, it does not seem too sanguine to expect that at least five good men should compete in each of the more important sports. The weather was, unfortunately, bad; but, as the spring is likely to be more favorable, we trust that more men will train, and that there may be no walk-overs...
...society feeling which does exist will be entirely laid aside during the class election. The idea that each society must be represented among the class officers by any definite number of men is absurd; and if such an idea is carried out in voting, the result will be a bad choice, or an in-harmonious election, - perhaps both. To avoid an unpleasant result, the class should be willing to make almost any sacrifice. It should be a matter of pride with every class to hand down to its successors our old University customs. We recommend to the Seniors the course...
...Just bad enough in one to blend...
...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...