Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That "Bloody Monday" is an institution handed down year after year, and that therefore it should be continued, is no argument in its favor at all. The custom is essentially bad; every influence of it is bad; and the fact that it is bad, whether it be time-honored or not, is reason enough that it be abolished...
...race with Columbia yesterday was postponed on account of the bad weather...
...treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder to treat, perhaps, but affording greater opportunities for criticism, and less facility for masking bad work. It is easy to make a bad story about Antipodeans pass muster, whereas a faulty account of things nearer home stands abjectly and manifestly futile...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: True is the saying that a bad tree cannot but bear bad fruit, as is illustrated by the following case: Today occurs the final examination in History XV. Of the several books of reference used in that course, the most important one of all (and hence, the one most in demand last Friday and Saturday) could be found nowhere, Friday afternoon and Saturday forenoon. It was ascertained that the book had been taken out Friday evening, in the regular way, by a certain '88 man, and Saturday forenoon search was made throughout the reading-room...
...result of yesterday's game was more than the most sanguine could expect. The nine played an admirable game at the bat and a variable game - both brilliant and bad in the field. Our battery worked with wonderful effect and the whole nine showed snap and cool calculation at the right moments. Such a victory as we gained yesterday recalls our career on the diamond two years ago and makes us look to the final result of the series with more assurance. Every man in the nine should receive warm applause of the whole college...