Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Some of my experiences last year were almost as bad. When I was told that my mark in German was forty-nine, I looked somewhat aghast, for I had written a first-rate paper. The instructor, noticing my horror, kindly offered to explain, and took me with him to the tutorial mansion. I was astonished to see the library-table covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle...
...climb the stairs, what a noise he makes on the way! Even the quiet men above me, who belong to the very small class that neither whistle nor sing in the entries, come down the stairs in five steps, and shake the building; and they're not as bad as the fellows who seem to dance a polka all the way down. I find I'm worse off this year than ever. Can you suggest any remedy? Is there a room where I can make a noise without disturbing other people, and where I shall not be disturbed...
Somehow none of the things that happen to bad students in the books happened to this George. He was off on a spree for a week, and when he got back and handed in his certificate that he had been away visiting a sick relative, the shrewd old secretary did n't catch him by asking him if he had had a pleasant trip on the boat. O no! George was well aware that steamboats did not run through...
...there is a probability of being found out. Strange to say, George did not pass all his time in love-making. In the books love-making seems to be the chief occupation of a student. It was strange, but still it was true, that George thought girls almost as bad bores as examinations...
...time went on, George became more popular instead of less so. This is in dead opposition to all the authorities on the subject, I know; the bad men who have a brilliant success at first always ought to fall after a year or two, but George's popularity did n't wane worth a cent. He was elected President of lots of societies, and was looked up to with adoration...