Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unseemly slur upon the reputation for gentleman-liness of the visitors from Yale to our recent 'Varsity game. The conduct of the Yale team, it cannot be denied, was in general ungentlemanly and altogether reprehensible. The conduct of the Yale papers since the game has been equally bad or even worse. But not all this, we think, affords our contemporary any justification for the brutal fashion in which it turns upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college...
...late State election in Massachusetts, large crowds were assembled in Boston in front of the screens on which the latest returns were cast by the lime-light lanterns, as each successive bulletin gave a larger majority for Butler, among the other cries, we are told, there were shouts of "Bad for Harvard!" Compare this with the comment of the Spectator on Lord Carnarvon's statement that "three-fourths of the literary power of the country and four-fifths of the intellectual ability" were on the Conservative side, and the answer by a writer in the Times giving a long list...
...enthusiasm among the spectators, who had been waiting for an hour for the fun to begin. For the first twenty minutes the ball was kept upon Princeton's ground, and soon from a drop by Richards sailed over the bar, but the referee decided no goal, owing to bad tackling. Soon after Princeton was forced to make a safety, and for some time the ball hovered about her goal until Twombly made a magnificent run and passed the ball to Buck, who scored the first touchdown directly under the bar; amidst loud cheers Richards kicked a goal...
...that the New Haven daily was even more partizan and unjust toward Harvard than the Yale News itself; the writer could neither praise Yale too much nor heap enough abuse upon Harvard, showing that the Union, at least, stood prepared to back Yale in whatever she did, good or bad...
...Harvard students who so energetically labored, amid slush and snow, for nearly two days, to prepare the ground for the game, is worthy of thanks from Princeton. No game was ever played with more spirit and pluck, and, at the same time, no game was ever freer from bad feeling. [Princetonian...