Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Glee Club are said to have lost money by their last trip. Bad weather and consequently small houses greeted them. In consequence of the near approach of Lent, all sorts of entertainments were in full swing each night of their singing. The houses at Boston and Brooklyn, however, were very large and enthusiastic...
...intervals, is, we regret to say, very disappointing. The illustrations are very often execrable, while much of the poetry and prose is unutterably flat. To be sure, some very clever things, both in drawing and writing, may be found in its columns, but much that is at least in bad taste finds room there as well. A great contrast is presented in the Princetonian, which is undoubtedly in the front rank of college papers. Its make up and appearance are excellent, and it is most entertaining reading. It scores a point on the editorial and news columns, which are filled...
...these words we have tried to show rather how bad most college verses are than how good. There is an immense amount of sifting to be done to make up a justifiable collection, and after the next sifting how many of this collection will ever be read again? If it is necessary to offer any apology for the practice college men indulge in of writing verses, we can say that they do it for personal amusement and are wont to make their private anguish a burden to the public. At all events it is not meant to last...
AEstheticism is voted bad form and vulgar in English society. Athleticism has taken its place, and all sorts of vagaries in the worship of physical culture hold full sway...
...several years there has been no such good and abundant material at the disposal of the managers as is now offered. The London News says that if Mr. West, who rowed two and three years ago, but not last year, takes the eighth oar for Oxford it will need bad management or bad luck for the southern university to be beaten...