Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careless about their eyes, to stop all reading in the Library on these winter afternoons, before twilight sets in; but the reason is not so obvious why the drawing of books should be also stopped. As regards the reserved books, this early closing of the Library is a decidedly bad thing. As matters stand, men who have laboratory courses or double-hour recitations from two to four, can not draw reserved books at all. Those, too, who have consecutive recitations at the Museum or Jefferson, can not get books, unless they make themselves late at their second recitation. If they...
...meeting of the Shooting Club was postponed on account of the bad weather, and due notice will be given when it will occur...
...That Harvard's faculty will never let athletics alone until they have worked some bad results for the college is quite evident. By drawing codes, issuing edicts, and making prohibitions they have kept themselves quite busy for the last year, and disgusted the students and everybody else who feels any interest in the college. Their last decision, with reference to the employment of Mr. Bancroft. Seems to be the most absurd and inconsistent of all their rulings. And the reasons for it are so perfectly patent that the men who have lent their services in securing it are lowered...
...morning, it seems to us that the action of the Yale eleven cannot be too strongly condemned as ungentlemanly, discourteous, and unfair. Knowing that our eleven, by the rules of the faculty, could only play upon Saturday, the Yale men insisted upon some other day, but finally with a bad grace, yielded to the just demands of our freshmen. Then the affair was considered settled. The action of Yale in agreeing to the date was published in all the papers; a gentleman who holds a prominent position upon our team was informed orally by Yale that the game would...
...means merely physical. The game developes character, develops it much more than any other game we have. It makes a man of you, teaches you fearlessness, quick thinking, self-control (or should, when rightly played). subordination. The game may be perverted. and the character it develops be bad character, as we see in the case of one, at least, of the colleges; but that may be said of everything that affects character at all. And because anything that helps the growth of character may be perverted, we should not therefore give up striving to develope character. Foot ball...