Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of the series of foot-ball games for the class championship was played yesterday between eighty-six and eighty-nine. It was as bad a day as could well be imagined, being bleak and cold with a strong wind blowing directly down the field. Eighty-six won the toss and took the upper side of the field, thus having wind and sun at their backs. Eighty-nine had the kick off and passed the ball to Morgan who gained about fifteen yards. This was about as near as the freshmen got to their opponents' goal, as the ball went...
...nine team, will be able to score a victory over Andover. We sincerely trust that never again shall we see the pitiful spectacle of a freshman eleven practically forced to disband because a few of the men on the team are laid up. Eighty-six had luck nearly as bad as eighty-nine has had, in her freshman year; but she did not give up. Will not eighty-nine also show that she has some spirit...
...hoped that the usual freshman ebullition might be omitted. As all three candidates were Harvard graduates, perhaps there was a feeling that by cheering for alma mater, the different candidates could be honored, and yet the most tender of partisan feelings remain unhurt. However, the custom is a bad one and should be given...
...very numerous, and, once in, there is no withdrawal that is possible. There are cases where every thing is made a society matter. The election of class officers is frequently made by a 'deal' between two or three powerful societies, and the result is therefore a cause of much bad feeling...
About seven or eight men assembled in Holden Chapel last night in reference to the appeal for the grand stand. As the attendance was so small, owing to the bad state of the weather, on the motion of Mr. Fessenden, the meeting was indefinitely postponed...