Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plays a sharp, quick game with a good deal of snap. He is weak in blocking, and labors besides under the disadvantage of being very light. The other two rushers at Southboro were McKean and Newell, though since then McKean has been playing full back. Newell has a bad trick of bunting the man with the ball instead of tackling him. McKean in the rush line, did not work hard enough and seemed to lose his head, faults which he could easily remedy. As full back he seems to prefer to catch the ball on the bounce than...
Such a brazen attempt to weaken, in our young minds, the influence of these time-honored sayings of our ancestors is in itself bad enough, and might be enlarged upon to a much greater extent, but that there is another and a more important side to the question. This other side is, perhaps, rather a matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion...
...crew on strictly economical principles, to which purpose he steadily adhered. I have felt and still feel that to manage the Boat Club money extravagantly or carelessly is not only wasteful, but demoralizing to the crew and everyone connected with the crew. More than this, I consider it bad in point of policy and worse in point of honesty. I desire to thank, through your columns, Mr. Flagg, '87; Mr. Wheelwright, '87; Mr. Bowles, '87, Mr. Dexter, '87; and Mr. Scoffield, '87 for their kind assistance in collecting subscriptions...
...plan of holding fall class races has not been received with any marked signs of satisfaction by the college. It has many bad points which can hardly be overlooked. In the first place the item of expense comes into prominence. The accounts of the several class crews all go to show that the burden of crew expense is already sufficiently heavy. Then the question of training demands attention. It certainly seems that. with the short time at hand for preparation, the proposed races would be of but little more account than a scratch race on a large scale. With these...
...students, especially those who spend almost all of their time on matter which pertains entirely to the courses they have in hand, are dubbed at all colleges either "grinds," "digs," or "grubs," and to be called such is not unusually considered a mark of flattery. The expressions for a bad recitation very at different colleges; "fizzle," "flunk," "clump," and "smash" are the most common. The contemptible act of a student who endeavors to ingratiate himself with an instructor by his seeming interest in lessons and officious civilities, now known as "toadying," was formerly called "fishing." The words "cram...