Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again. Oh, how the Miscellany did give it to me, and to you, too. Of course they don't know for sure that it was I who wrote the letter, but almost every one shows by their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that I just went to my room and had a real good cry. Really and truly, dear HERALD, I didn't think I was doing anything wrong when I wrote to you that way. You can imagine how I felt when...
...because almost all the girls are mad at me, because they think I wrote it. I would so much like to know what Harvard men think about the letter. I don't believe they think it so fearfully vicious, because honestly and truly I did not mean a single bad thing. I showed the letter to a lady friend, and she said she wouldn't mind at all what the Miscellany said, and then she told me a story about the Duchess of Shrewsbury, but she said something in French, and after what the Miscellany said I'll never...
...suggest itself to us, however unpleasant it may be, that we are not getting fair treatment. If we were sure that every thing was square and above-board, and that we had an equal chance with every other man, we would go our way in peace, simply regretting our bad luck...
...received once from a "mission," excepting perhaps some choice interpolations of his own derived from the affecting story of Cinderella and her slipper, and from some confused tales of Greek mythology. On the question of suicide John has a very striking and convincing theory. "It is two toimes as bad to kill yourself," says he, "as to kill any outher mon. If you kill any outher mon, you can repint, but you can never repint whin you have killed yoursilf." John says there was once a man here at Harvard who tried to make people think that men came from...
...such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that she don't know how to be bad...