Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells at the boathouse which their owners use semi occasionally, but as for other students they are but very rarely seen on the river. Why would...
...years ago the Dining Association was one of the standard grievances upon which the college press exercised the rhetoric. Things were really in a bad way, and the dissatisfaction of the students finally became so great that the change was made by which the present dynasty came into power. On the whole, things have run along pretty smoothly under its administration, - complaints have been comparatively infrequent, and no small amount of satisfaction has been expressed at the efforts of the management to make the association a success. But now the steward - for, in lack of more definite information, he must...
Owing to the bad weather the attendance at the third winter meeting on Saturday was not as large as usual. The meeting, however, was, on the whole, an interesting one, although the exhibition of jumping and high kicking could not compare with the third winter meeting of last year, when several records were broken. The first event...
...remarks." For instance, Mr. Freshworthy takes the theme on "The Harvard Student as a Cynic," written by Mr. Crewman to "criticise," while Mr. Freshworthy's theme is sniffed at by somebody else, Mr. Crewman receives back his theme heavily scored and underscored with marginal notes of "wretched grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts...
...what he is doing. Morse keeps his arms bent and swings in. He lets his slide get ahead of his shoulders and does not sit up at the finish. There is no power in his stroke. The trouble with the whole crew is that their time is pretty bad; they are slow in starting forward, and they do not get their shoulders on quick enough. They do not hold their oars with a firm enough grasp, and keep changing their grip all the time. Their swinging is very bad, hardly a man swinging right over the keel...