Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about this matter generally, and particularly among the freshmen. They must not think that the intention was to shut them out from the tree, because they were freshmen, as a punishment...
...every individual member of the defeated nine, instead of regarding the affair in a philosophical manner, well knowing that in base-ball an almost perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months of hard work on the ball field...
...class races, after several vexatious delays, have at last taken place. A sharp, cutting north-east wind was blowing during the whole race, and the water was in a bad condition for a race. The race was a plucky one, and from the start was virtually between '82 and '83. The crews crossed the line in the order of their classes, '82, '83, '84 and '85. The official time was as follows...
...left the wharf at Boston bridge at precisely 12.25 with about fifty people on board, including the officers of the race. A rather strong north-east wind was blowing at the time and the water was in very bad condition for rowing. The referee's boat went from the West Boston bridge to the Union boat-house, where it took in the referee, Wm. S. Eaton, Jr. It then proceeded directly to the starting line. A new method of starting the the crews was adopted for the first time this year. A rope was stretched from the bank near...
...reports of the Brown-Harvard game published in the Boston papers yesterday morning are regarded by the college in general as very unsatisfactory. The bad decisions of the umpire were in some instances almost unpardonable, and were generally in Brown's favor, the Herald and Globe to the contrary notwithstanding. The reports of these papers received much severe and unfavorable comment yesterday, and the general impression is that they were very unjust to our nine, to say the least...