Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happens to be a manager of, or connected in some such way with, a 'varsity team, it is considered perfectly proper for him to appear in the regulation 'varsity blazer, while for his classmate who has not been so fortunate, it is termed "bad form" to do the same. Thus by a petty, illogical and totally inconsistent custom, undergraduates are practically compelled to wear blazers striped with their class colors. In the country during the summer months a man who wears his class color of yellow and black is invariably taken for a Princeton man, and quite naturally too; while...
...professionals with? He cited President Elliot's statement concerning our present social condition and the opinion in which Harvard is held by people at large who, if asked what they think of having the Harvard base-ball club going about playing ball with professionals clubs, would think it a bad thing and refuse to aid the University in any way whatever. If the institutionis to reach the standard which it has set up for itself, it must, to a certain extent cater to public opinion...
...There are now some good men at work, but too few. There are at least, five men in each class who should be working, but who are not, simply from lack of diligence or ambition. The crew is, therefore, left in a bad state, with only five or six men training who are fit to represent the class at New London...
...forced to meet Harvard, '91, with some indifferent or poor men in their boat. Every effort should therefore be made to get the drones at work. Meanwhile, those men who are working must train all the harder, and learn from '90's crew what can be done with bad material by the hardest kind of work. The men now training...
...popular man in the class. The wooden spoon exhibition itself was always elaborately gotten up. The curtain rose upon eight young men standing around an enormous bud, which leaved out, and the one who was to receive the spoon stepped from the group and delivered a salutatory half in bad Latin and half in worse English. In the course of this opening speech the orator addressed the classes individually, but in this year of '65 he launched his boldest flight in welcoming the fairer part of the audience when he said: "Oh tenerae virgines graciles formosae: may the smiles never...