Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew. The eighty-five crew of last year was also a powerful one, but did not win. The seniors are, therefore, not full of confidence, but view with zealous eyes any improvements made by their rivals of '86 and '87. The marked faults of the senior crew are a bad finish, and two deep a dip; some of the men settle at the finish, and rush the recover. They are now rowing as follows...
Although the state of the walks in the yard is a well known, and oft recurred to grievance, and although the authorities have hitherto turned a deaf ear to all appeals concerning them, still there are two places in the walks which are so unutterably bad that we venture once more to call the attention of the powers that be to them, in the hope that they may be repaired. The places referred to are,- the marsh below Appleton Chapel, and the pond at the end of the walk on Harvard Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist...
...whether we like it or no. If we will not stop during our waking hours for a season of introspection and of self-interrogation, we nevertheless must submit to having all this done for us in our sleep. Yet, it must be confessed, dreams greatly magnify our good and bad qualities. For our visions are usually too wonderful, or too grand, or too horrible, or too noble, or too poetical, for us ever to think of conceiving anything like them when we are not asleep. Yet they are all made from material that we have previously accumulated. So that...
...consideration of the many variations of which the Athletic Committee has made on its own authority the meaning of the word "professional" capable, it would not, perhaps, be a bad plan for our representatives at the next conference to ask the Faculty if this declaration of the amateur athletes agrees with their ideas of what constitutes a "professional." It seems as if there was an excellent opportunity for the students to get a clearer definition of "professional," since such a positive and unequivocal definition has been given by an authority so much respected in athletic matters. The Association...
...subscriptions to the crew. I have no doubt whatever that the article in question was written in perfectly good faith, and nothing was further from my thoughts, in replying to it, than impugning, in the least, the motives of its author. I only intended to point out the bad effects which such an article might have, and to counteract that effect so far as I was able...