Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...judgment, the journals of to-day are good or bad in so far as they more or less closely resemble the ideal journal I have tried to describe; and the 'tone of the modern press' can be improved by following the lines suggested above. These are the best answers I can make at this moment to your first and second questions...
...ground is good, you can keep the ball on the ground and still take it down the field and still take it down the field by dribbling it along, dodging around the players on the other side as they get in front of you. If the ground is bad and you can't dribble the ball, you have to use the head for passing. Many a time I have been down the whole length of the field with two others, carrying the ball by passing it with our heads and shoulders from one to the other. A player...
...foul, too, if the ball hits your arm below the elbow. The great point about the Association game is that it is not so rough as the Rugby. Of course you cannot play foot-ball without being a bit rough, but it is not nearly so bad as Rugby...
...larger attendance was present at vespers last evening than one would expect from the bad weather. The congregation, however, consisted chiefly of Cambridge citizens, as the approaching mid-years prevented many students from coming. After the introductory prayer by Dr. F. G. Peabody, the choir sang the selection "Lovely appeared over the Mountains," from Gounod's Redemption. The for thieth Psalm was read, and Shelley's "Christian, the Evening waits before Thee," was sung. Rev. Dr. McKenzie spoke briefly of the importance of developing our spiritual natures. He alluded to the religious lives lead by earlier members of the University...
...President Eliot said that, in his opinion, it was largely owing to religious grounds. Forty years ago Harvard was a sectarian college belonging to the Unitarians, who were then greatly disliked by other denominations. Although Harvard is no longer sectarian, religious hatred still makes men ready to believe anything bad which may be said of it, while they refuse to credit any representations to the contrary. Then, too, we have more rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich men's sons are, as a rule, wild and extravagant, and by their actions tend...