Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three, or Saturday morning, evidently with a view to preventing students from taking them. The principle of conveniencing the instructors instead of the students is a thoroughly bad one. The result of making a good elective conflict with others is, that the student is forced to relinquish some valuable course, and take one that he does not care to; the result of placing good electives in bad hours is to make students abandon these inconvenient ones, and take...
...wanted to make progress, so I determined to give up one of my theatre evenings to German at sight. Then I went into Greek, and was told that the history of the period must be worked up before the mid-year examination. Well, that was n't so bad. I could give up a few of the afternoons that I had intended to devote to calls. I went into political economy next, and learned that a long thesis would be required of each member of the elective after the Thanksgiving recess. I was glad that it was postponed until then...
...that all? I shall have to leave the Hall; it's almost as bad as Mrs. Morgan's, when poor, dear great-grandpapa was in college. Was n't that a charming dress that the presidentess wore at her recitation in Etiquette 13, this afternoon...
...scarcely thought that the Williams men would thus boldly acknowledge their summer avocations. Boating seems to be in a bad way at Williams. "The boat-house and contents have been attached for rent. The boats, both those belonging to the association and those owned by private individuals, are open to the pure air of heaven and the stones and clubs of every vagrant tramp...
...editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library] is too bad; pious Harvard students, it will be seen, are prohibited a taste of the forbidden fruit. We notice that Carl still caters to the fastidious taste of the Harvard boys. By the way, have any of our readers ever entered Carl's domain? We have heard that it is a second...