Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the bad state of the weather yesterday, the '86-'88 game was postponed. It will probably be played...
...state was the irresponsible spirit which pervaded all classes. The early political life of the state was influenced largely by the presence of Southern politicians, so that finally the Democratic party was in the ascendant. The American treatment of the natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other and the result was often...
...Morgan, who rushed it down the field and into the hands of Porter, he in return kicking it back half the length of the field. '88 quickly made a touch-down. The ball was punted out for a fair catch and a try at goal made, which failed. A bad fumble was made by Perry, '89, followed by a fair catch by Perkins. Porter now began the series of brilliant rushes, which were the feature of the game, and was well tackled by Perry, who did not however manage to prevent the former from scoring a touch-down...
...sunset is now about 4.45. The authorities of the library, however, closed the outer door last Monday at only a few minutes after four, and students who went directly from the recitation room at four o'clock, in order to get reserved books, were refused admittance. It is bad enough not to have the use of the library during the long evenings, simply because our rich university will not find the funds to light the building, but to have the time in which the library can be used made shorter than the rules require deserves stronger condemnation. The policy...
...first and best function of criticism is to recognize merits not defects. It surely cannot be denied that the selective power developed by practice in criticism is of the highest value in the subsequent development of the creative power: a writer who cannot distinguish the good from the bad in other writers, will scarcely succeed in producing good work alone in his own literary efforts. Experience is a good teacher, I admit, but observation is of no less value in literary work...