Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that it moves, and yet be a good man; in other words, that it is not the belief of a man which establishes his goodness or badness, but his acts...
...wanted to know was what I had learned from my books. Oh well, if I were writing to any College fellow I would laugh at him for asking such an absurd question, and tell him that he ought to know that I never studied; that to study was bad form; and as for going to recitations, why, I never go. But as this letter is to you, and is withal a frank confession, I will acknowledge studying a little now and then when I think no one will see me; for to be found grinding is to be held...
...deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market baskets in their hands. No, Rembrandt, we cannot follow you; you loved nature, but it was a vulgar nature. The English are bad also, especially Turner; he is too landscapy. If I had only a head to paint, I might take the Florentines as masters, but I must give Antigone the rest of herself as well as a head. Only Venice and Athens remain; which shall it be? I will make a compromise...
...last question in the letter there may be said of '80 what has already been said of '82 '80 furnished fewer men because she did not happen to have the material of the other classes named, although four 'Varsity men to a class is not a bad average. To conclude, the Crimson does not think that as yet there is sufficient reason to abandon the ground which has been already taken...
...JAMES ha??? resumed his course of weekly lectures on Physiology and Hygiene, which proved so valuable last year. They are now given in the lower lecture-room in Sever, which is a great convenience, in avoiding the walk to the Museum, and the bad ventilation of the lecture-room there. The hour chosen, two o'clock on Wednesdays, is perhaps as good a one as the crowded Tabular View could afford. We are glad to mention also Dr. Sargent's informal lectures at the Gymnasium, on the use of apparatus...