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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Complaints have been frequent at Yale lately about the bad state of the air in the gymnasium. The ventilation, they say, could be improved greatly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

Since the publication of the communication to the CRIMSON with reference to the wretehed state of the basement at Weld, the college authorities have had plumbers investigating the difficulty. They find that some of the pipes were in a rather bad condition, but they have now been thoroughly repaired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

...crawling" of the Yale 'varsity nine our nine was compelled to play Williams for the championship; Williams was unhappily victorious to the tune of 39 to 37, and the Yale freshmen beat the Harvard freshmen 36 to 33. The Williams audience "had a way of crowing over any bad luck on our side with a Yi! Yi! Yi! and a howl," an unpleasant habit, gained, thinks the Advocate from New York "professionals, firemen and roughs." The grand match for the championship of New England with the Lowell club was also lost 37 to 27, and the season ended with great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/9/1887 | See Source »

...four year's course of study, remind me of those used by the wolf when he had determined to eat the lamb; having made up their minds to do a thing - for reasons of expediency, perhaps - they justify their action by the best arguments within the reach of a bad cause...

Author: By Chas. W. Super., | Title: The Degree of A. B. | 2/5/1887 | See Source »

...Keyes of the University crew was the first speaker. He spoke in a non-committal way, stating that the action of the freshmen was not to be made hastily, but that they must decide whether they wished to establish a precedent for future classes; he also spoke of the bad condition of the course, and thought Harvard ought to keep up the old traditions of the Columbia freshman race unaltered. Mr. T. Q. Browne, '88 followed him in the same tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshmen Decide | 1/18/1887 | See Source »

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