Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...democratic won't-be-bulldozed spirit naturally breeds. Any one who has a penchant for working in practical politics can get a very fair sample of it here, and in that respect the system may be valuable. Its direct influence upon students and the institution I believe to be bad; yet just at present it is unavoidable, springing from the very nature of things...
Despite the bad weather the audience at the gymnasium on Saturday was large and the meeting was attended with the usual success. The middle-weight sparring was an improvement on that of last year. The light-weight wrestling was particularly good and the wrestling as a whole compared favorably with that of last year. Mr. Bangs, who was awarded the prize for general excellence in wrestling, showed great skill and agility. The meeting as a whole reflects great credit on the officers of the association...
...crew are in as bad a condition as our correspondent states, the fact is to be deplored; we hope to see during the two weeks of gymnasium work which remain a decided improvement in form, so that '86 may make her appearance on the water in good style and in a fit condition to undertake the more difficult work of the year...
...feasibility of making the telegraph a government institution is clearly shown. This method has been in vogue in England ever since 1868 with very good results, due in a great part to the purity of the civil service there. The only thing which prevents its adoption here is the bad state into which our government service has come under the "spoils system." As this, however, is being rapidly done away with, we may look forward to cheaper and more efficient telegraph service under the management of the government...
...suggestion offered in the Exonian as regards teaching the Exeter crews the proper method of rowing, has certainly much to commend it. The whole objection in the past to aiding the academy boating interests has been that the men there were liable to acquire a bad system of rowing, so that it would afterwards be harder to teach them the Harvard stroke than it would if they had known absolutely nothing about rowing. The Exonian, in mentioning a way for removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years...