Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chalfant and Sawyer have both bad colds, and have stopped rowing with the 'Varsity for the present...
While we cannot but admire the Greek Play as it is produced at the Globe Theatre by professional actors, and fully appreciate the compliment paid to our college by its reproduction in this manner, we feel obliged to comment on the good or bad taste displayed in its presentation in two languages...
...into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many...
...done a fair amount of work during the term, are to be envied. It is a common fault at Harvard for men to neglect the preparation of their daily work, and to depend almost entirely upon an unnatural amount of very hard and concentrated work just before examination. The bad effects of this manner of studying are so obvious, that they scarcely need mention, but to bring freshly before the mind of the student the great mistake made by so many in this direction, we will call attention to one or two of the most prominent evils of this form...
Notwithstanding the bad weather, there was a very good attendance at chapel yesterday morning...