Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...History 13 could become universal in our history courses. If the men in History 13 prefer the other method, it will be only their own loss if they succeed in their present attempt. It can hardly be believed, however, that the instructor will change a good system for a bad one, simply because his students do not perceive the advantages of the present plan...
...historic accuracy, the theological quality, the bad taste, the gross impertinence of such a poem as this, delivered in such circumstances, there can be but one opinion among considerate men; the affair belongs to that class of performances which has been wittily described as an indecent exposure of private opinions...
...then nobody expects "historic accuracy" in a poem any more than in a religious newspaper, and as to "theological quality, bad taste, and gross impertinence," they are the last things in the world to which religious newspapers should wish to allude, if the accounts which these journals give of each other be at all correct. - Evening Post...
...Yale freshmen did not play a good game on the whole. Their blocking was bad and their tackling very high, and there seemed a roughness and uncertainty among the rushers which prevented most of their tricks from working well. Our freshmen played a strong hard game, though not a very scientific one. They blocked well, and the way they broke through the Yale rush-line was perfectly delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw...
...Book Counter, - B. Wendell: Rankell's Remains; Ely: Labor Movement in America; James: The Princess Cassamassima; Corson: Introduction to Browning; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; Geo. C. Bush: Harvard; Baker: The Bad habits of Good Society; Whist Scores and Card Table Talk; Atlantic for December, 28 cents. Upton: Standard Oratorios; Mendel: Haufp Tales; Muller: German Classics; Hawthorne: Confessions and Criticism...