Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aids. During the past twenty years Harvard has more than doubled the number of her buildings, chiefly, no doubt, to keep pace with the growth in the number of her students and of her courses of instruction, and to afford adequate accommodations to these. It would clearly have been bad policy for her to refuse to do this. But of late there has been arising among her friends and constituency a vague apprehension lest she may not soon be found erring through an extreme execution of this policy, and thereby incur the same blame Princeton once incurred...
...they may be absolutely free from debt. Never has a freshman class for years lost the fence, and it is earnestly to be hoped that '85 will keep up the prestige of the former class, and obtain the coveted honor at the first opportunity offered. - [News.] It is too bad that our freshmen have no fence to win in case they defeat the Yale freshmen. What an incentive to hard work such a "coveted honor" would...
...spite of the bad walking many ladies visited the college yesterday...
...certain young men who are, no doubt, sincere; but I can assure them that they are no more than caricatures." As he looked around him he said. "Save me from my disciples!" and then added, "but rather let me, as Wadsworth says, "Turn me from these bold, bad men'." Mr. Wilde spoke very pleasantly of his visit to Harvard, and suggested how finely the statue of a Greek athlete would look standing in our gymnasium, and what an ennobling influence it would have there. He said he would like to present us with one himself if we would accept...
...truth is that the practice of assigning so-called marks is one productive of much evil, and wholly unworthy to be employed in an institution that claims to be a university. It is well that a man's work be reported, in some form, as good, fair or bad; but it is impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves the one per cent. It will not be long before this old-time spelling...