Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy." Performance...
...which he will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both intellectually and socially more than they benefit it pecuniary, and that the now almost total loss of class fellowship is working a bad effect upon the majority of men who graduate. Unfortunately this is too true. In the smaller establishments of learning where the classes are limited to one hundred or less, the men amalgamate, so to speak, together, and the metal of their mind is in consequence such that when any important...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy." Performance...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy." Performance...
...term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought to be, considered a good quality...