Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is not the place for boys of vicious inclinations. Undoubtedly it will take them less time to run their course here than at any other college. But it is only a matter of time; they will go to the bad sooner or later. All this proves nothing as to Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit...
...from the positively expressed characters of the few, we would agree with some of our staid, well-meaning friends in thinking that "those Harvard boys are the worst lot this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate...
Perhaps less interesting even than the battles of editors is their love-making. Just as every paper has its bitter foes, so, too, every paper has its dear friends. With the former all is bad; with the latter all is good. Here is a paper that is "little, but oh my!" and here one that is "decidedly fresh," and here a third that "is a credit to the institution which it represents. Such a paper cannot fail to arouse an interest outside its own peculiar sphere. We hope to see you often...
William Pennell, of the University of Pennsylvania gymnasium, declares that rubber soled shoes are bad for the feet, but he will not prohibit their use in the gymnasium. He recommends light canvass shoes, with leather soles...
...present in our college papers there is a strong tendency toward story-writing. The tendency is a good one; for a well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what...