Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That is, I mean, fresh from the airs and bad habits contracted later...
...getting it up. What, what are we coming to? Was it not the Index which only last year was so virtuously indignant at the attention paid to athletics at Harvard and Yale? And now they have gone and had a meeting of their own, and found it not so bad after all. One Reverend gentleman acted as Referee and others presented prizes, one of which was in the substantial form of a barrel of apples. The subjects of some of the articles in the present number of the Index are of a very general character, such as "Poetry," "Truth...
...championship" goes. Columbia she has also defeated in eight-oars. Cornell has beaten Harvard twice in six-oars, and our Freshman crew last year in an eight-oar. As far as the eight-oar "championship" goes, then, Harvard has a perfect right to that title (if she has the bad taste to choose to claim it), and is justified in sending a crew to England under that name, if she wishes. If Cornell (in event of our accepting a challenge from them) were to make some definite preparations for sending their crew abroad if they beat us, outsiders would then...
...contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college. We cannot help reverting to the tardiness with which men enter their names. It was, we believe, with the intention of breaking up this bad habit that the plan of having secret entries was adopted. Men used to hang back, waiting to see who their opponents were going to be, and would enter or not accordingly. But now they can have no such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time...
...extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe grind it contains. Among the items we learn that a Young Men's Infidel Association has been started, with a membership of thirty. O wicked, depraved Cornell! A pigsty in the college yard is bad enough, but an Infidel Association is far worse. What will the Niagara Index...