Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven schoolma'ams were seen going through New Haven's flowing streets last week, each armed with a plank six feet long, with which they bridged bad gutters and pools." Where were the Sir Walter Raleighs of Yale...
...very irregular, several of the men swinging out of line continually; furthermore only half of the crew get a decisive snap on the catch, two, three, four and six being deficient in this particular. The three stern men row well together, but in the bow the time is bad. Stroke pulls in excellent form, with an even motion and firm catch. Several of the men manage their shoulders badly and nearly all need coaching on the slides...
...Williams, also, seems to be the cause of great uneasiness to many people, and we believe that even some of the sons of the college, at a recent meeting at Cleveland, improved the occasion to attack his doctrines. Those who were guilty of this exhibition of disloyalty and bad taste smply showed that they had lost their heads. But perhaps when they made their ill-timed comments they were not aware that Gen. Garfield once said that Prof. Perry had done more than any other man in America to bring out the truth in political economy, or that he expressed...
There is a bad leak in the roof of Harvard Hall...
...reported that the recent mutinous conduct of the cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy is in great part owing to the bad blood that has existed at the naval academy for a comparatively long period between the superintendent and cadets. The proceedings, as any observer of naval academy methods can see, will end in the dismissal of some of the cadets, the breaking down of the rebellion, and a vindication of the superintendent...