Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prof. Torrey was suffering from the effects of a bad cold yesterday, the lecture in History 15 was omitted...
...weights, then, assuredly he told a lie. If the jump was made from a spring board, or from a great elevation, or after striking the ground with his feet three or four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative...
...quite so bad, as all the way however, for one dear old lady did keep her company the first night, but no further, so that Sunday until Monday noon saw her in Chicago, she was at the mercy of a car full of Harvard Students, who were the other occupants of the car! Thank of this! The first long journey, first experience in a sleeper, and if not her first with young men, certainly the only time they had been exclusively Cambridge students. What would an English matron say at the mention of dangerous sophomores and freshly freshmen as travelling...
SHOOTING AT YALE.-The funny man of the Yale Record, laboring under a bad attack of Dr. Carver, and the midyears combined, produces the following...
...single Beethoven symphony played. It is to be hoped that in the three concerts that demain to be given, Mr. Gericke will find it practicable to play one or two of that master's. Since the number of concerts in Cambridge is only six, it is almost too bad that they should be entirely taken up with novelties; the Mendelssohn symphony of last night was the first standard work of the kind that has been heard here this year. The new things are interesting for a change but it seems desirable that the older and better known works should form...