Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unwise idealists work against the ideal itself. That society ought to be as united an organism as possible, does not mean that a man ought to try to organize all society in his own way. It is the over-hasty idealism that has given the socialistic ideal a bad name. The business of the individual is to find a concrete case where he can increase the organization of some department of society, and to undertake the work offered to him just there. A third enemy to the ideal, is the indifference to all organization of society that is expressed...
...larger number of men then usual in training, but there seems to be no one to keep them up to their work, and so they loose interest and are not as regular as they should be in their attendance at the gymnasium. The university crew is in almost as bad a way. We have heard that there are a number of new and promising men working, but we have not yet seen an eight at the machines. A few men are conscientious in their training, but the majority are not. And all this in the face of the fact that...
...some objectore the evil of "professionalism" in athletics includes more than playing with professional nines. The employment of professional "trainers" in preparing students for contests is, for some, the chief evil. Such trainers are looked upon as bad companions for our young men. It is quite natural that students, when taking lessons of any kind, should prefer the best masters. Unfortunately, the best masters are not always the best men. That the pupils are, therefore, always led into bad courses by the example of their instructors does not follow. There is enough good sense in college students generally to dissociate...
...college and have authority. If you wish to go to the trustees-it is the highest authority-that court is open to you. The public, as I happen to know, thinks the college to be in a poor way, and the faculty and students both to be bad. Something is essentially wrong. For myself, I say I have never been guilty of supporting a system of espionage. I say our business is to keep order. I said to the tutors, If you see a man going wrong, go to him and tell him so. If that don't help...
Before the movement, of which the battle of Chancellorsville is the principle feature, was undertaken, the army of the Potomac was in a bad state of demoralization incident to the abortive attempts under Burnside to overpower Lee. It was the first duty of Hooker, its new commander, to reorganize it. This he did most effectively, and when he was ready to move forward he had about 130,000 men of all arms. This force lay along the banks of the Rappahannock, opposite Fredricksburg. On the bluffs behind this city, Lee was encamped in a natural stronghold with about...