Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remember much about what followed, only I dimly recollect Amy's fainting, and then having seen a yacht come alongside, and the Yale man, about three times his natural size, helping Amy into it, and muttering something about the bad effects of drinking too early in the day, as he glanced...
...about you, but because ma didn't put any doughnuts in my lunch basket; and I looked at you because you looked so like red-headed Sam Smith who is gone daown to Waterford College." All this volleyed at me in a nasal twang from a mouth lined with bad teeth, accompanied by a healthy smell of onions, was too much for me, and I was driven to the smoking car and the solace of a cigar...
...WEEK from to-morrow, if the weather is favorable, the class races will be rowed over the Charles River course. There are several objections to keeping up the custom of class races in the autumn, the principal of which are the liability to bad weather, and the shortness of time that can be had for training; but these are more than over-balanced by the advantages that are derived from the practice. It gives an impetus to rowing, trains men to row a race, and affords the captain of the 'Varsity an opportunity of examining men who may become candidates...
...Brown nine excelled us at every point, and at one time it looked as though we should be whitewashed, without making a safe hit. Folsom and Winsor were both injured during the game, but not so severely as to prevent them from finishing it, or to excuse our bad playing. Shattuck at first did the best work for Harvard in the field, and White led at the bat for Brown. Following is the score...
...receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying that there is a great deal of poetry, better than any the Magazine ever publishes, in the Lit's waste-basket. To such an answer, at once a courteous criticism, an interesting fact...