Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think you're awful bad...
...find the Princetonian, which has improved very much, of late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have always been well written. We cannot say so much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses execrably and intolerably bad . . . The 'Varsity, of Toronto, is one of our newer papers; and, if it shows no traces of youthful faults, certainly is free from the weaknesses of age. . . Of the Argus (Wesleyan), we say nothing, because, as of the Trinity Tablet, there is nothing to say, good or bad...
...suppose that he can, by faithful training, make a good showing a month from now, to go to work at once with energy. We say this especially to Freshmen, because, as has been said before, it is in the Freshman year that a class wins its reputation, good or bad, as the case may be. Let '84 take good care that theirs shall be a good one. In regard to the exhibition we also wish to say a few words. It will be the first thing of the kind that has ever been undertaken at Harvard, and will be more...
...pursued my investigations much farther, but with no satisfactory results, for my friends all took the same view of the matter, namely, that I was hopelessly gone [gone where?] on some one, and would not listen to reason [bad taste, too great an assumption]; so I have resolved to drop the matter till I have reached the age of acknowledged celibacy [vague...
...whom it was for. I would not tell him, whereupon he poured the ale out on the ground and broke the jug. Moreover, he reported me to the Faculty. F., by the way, when I managed to reach his room, without the desired liquor, kicked me downstairs, using very bad words the while. So to-day, when I refused to say more about the ale than that I had fetched it, the President pronounced a long polemic against the evils of intoxication and of disobedience, finishing with rusticating me until the end of the mid-summer term...