Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justice. It is generally very hard to detect students, and, in case these escape, it is a question whether the college will pay for the lamps; it seems to me that it would be eminently short-sighted in them to neglect doing so. Two, who were unfortunately in this bad company, have been detected. One was arrested on the warrant of the mayor, and has been held in bail of $300 to appear before the grand jury. The offence is a criminal one, and the guilty parties are liable to spend the next two years of their life...
...very, very bad...
...would get you in a very bad...
...This is too serious a question, sir, to make light of. You know that Harvard is a very bad place to send young men. My aunt stayed in Cambridge a little while last winter, and she told me that one afternoon, when she was riding in a horse-car, there was a student there so intoxicated that when a lady got in he stood up in front of her, and took his hat off and began to talk to her, and tried to make her take his seat; and she was a stranger to him too. In all the years...
...allow that that was pretty bad," I said. "We do occasionally have a few rather fast young fellows - graduates from Connecticut colleges - that come to get an education, you know; but they rarely get beyond Freshman year. But as for this little matter of spirituous imbibition, you must concede that the New Haven students are infinitely worse than we are. W(h)y, a-l-e is the very name their college goes by wherever it is known; and porter is the fountain of their life, their stay, their prop, their patron deity...