Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Applegate, '89, comes nearly up to the perpendicular on the first half of his stroke before he kicks his slide; finishes with a bad jerk; takes hold of the water with bent arms; and rows with a crooked back...
...Union. The names of the principal speakers will bear out this assertion. The Advocate says to get an appointment, it is only necessary "to be constant in attendance, in volubility and in activity." Now certainly this is not an argument against the committee. It would certainly be very bad policy for the management to appoint men who have been irregular in attendance, who have seldom spoken, and make a merit of inactivity...
...Doesn't face his oar soon enough on the recover, which causes a hang on the full reach. Doesn't row his shoulders back. Keeps bad time...
...fact that several men fainted in one of the lecture rooms yesterday only goes to prove more conclusively that the majority of the students in Harvard College do not know good air from bad. Something should be done immediately now that the warm weather is approaching, to make the ventilation in all the rooms more perfect...
...wondering if the change is for the better, if the editors have shown good taste in departing from the peculiar college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads," and the "War Papers," are, it must be said, funny and laughable, but still they appeal to an inferior taste. Most men, who laugh, will also wish that something better, something less forced and more appropriate to a college paper and more in keeping with the Lampoon's former...