Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Good deal, which is bad...
...wear a pad?" "No; but my cousin's dad, whose health was bad, ever since he was a lad, he wears a pad; isn't it sad?" "Yes it is, egad." - Rambler...
...which we were all so proud, was well supported, it is true, when it went to New Haven, and realized a sum sufficient to be a decided help in paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among the students, trying to stir them up to a little more enthusiastic support. We cannot urge too strongly upon all the College that...
...actual attendance on the course counts at present. When, to avoid this, after having the passing mark raised from 40 to 70 per cent, an instructor deliberately tells a man with whom he is entirely unacquainted, that he should advise him not to take the anticipatory examination, it is bad enough; but when after forty men have attempted the examination, and have given more time to preparation for it than is generally given to preparing for the regular examinations in Sophomore Rhetoric, and when these are the picked men of a class of 220, the action of an instructor...
...probably not easily turned." We thought this a pretty good shot, and watched the effect. It certainly made an impression, but there wasn't that encouraging ripple of merriment that we desired. It was now my turn: "Can you tell me, Will, why that bald-head is a bad debtor?" "Why, because it produces no hair for its owner, though it must be hair owing to him." Still there was no evidence of hilarity in the seat in front; but I acknowledged that my effort was not irresistibly convulsive in its nature, and accordingly I did not feel greatly discouraged...