Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American colony, it adopted in the main our constitution; but had the wisdom to make certain changes therein. For instance, the president of the republic may restrict his veto to different items of an appropriation bill, instead of being forced, as with us, to accept that which is bad for the sake of what is good, or reject that which is good because the bad predominates...
...recess has been profitably employed by the crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress...
...interest and labor. The crew averages 160 in weight and the men are all strong for their weight; they have not yet reached perfection in form, and much more hard work will be required to put the crew in good shape. The time of the whole crew is bad and the oars are allowed to sliver out at the finish, thus shortening the stroke at a vital point; No. 8 especially, does not pull his oar through, which is a bad fault in a stroke oar. No. 7 swings in and six meets; four and five have no snap...
Soren won the standing high, going over at 4 ft. 8 1/2 in.; he was unable to make a better record owing to the bad light...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The wide-spread dissatisfaction in regard to Memorial Hall board is once more seeking expression. What we chiefly complain of is not that board is $4.58 a week, but that the food is of actually bad quality, and, more than that, is rendered almost uneatable by the poor cooking it receives. The amount received from over five hundred boarders at $4.58 a week certainly ought to provide food of good quality and well cooked; and with a capable and conscientious steward it would undoubtedly provide such food. Without exception, every student with whom I have talked about...