Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have twice as much as you spend; and to spend about half as much as you seem to. You ought always to have a little money in pocket, and the fact ought always to be known. Don't talk about your money. Bragging of all sorts is very bad taste; and, besides, if you tell people that you are rich, it sounds as if you imagined that otherwise they would think you poor. Open extravagance is just as bad, - it is bragging in pantomime. If, now and then, when you are called upon to pay a bill you casually produce...
...college tutors are human beings, although it is the fashion to regard them as diluted demons. Like other human beings, they are subject to prejudice. Like other human beings, they habitually communicate their prejudices to others. And if you make a bad impression upon the first ones with whom you come in contact, you will find that your bad reputation will spread as fast as the report of a Boston engagement. What is more, this bad reputation will cling to you through college. Your instructors will regard you as your conduct leads them to suppose that you regard them...
...what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells us that the accident to Columbia's rudder "inevitated an exhausting and irritating pull." If the new paper will tell us more of what is going on at the New Jersey college, we shall be obliged...
...cares to try for it. The present captain is forced to spend most of his time in urging men to join who ought to have volunteered long since, and be now working for old Harvard with might and main. The captain is out daily with a scratch crew, good, bad, and indifferent, and is working hard with such stuff as he can get. The president of the H. U. B. C. and others have told us what a tremendous enthusiasm there is among us; but it is about time that the students should know how the matter stands, and should...
...societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either bad or good. If the little remaining interest dies out of the societies, it will be transferred to something else, and according as this something else is better or worse than the society, the influence of the change will be bad or good. Whatever...