Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Middlesex Club that they will be unable to have their grounds in readiness for the shoot this afternoon. The meet will therefore be postponed until Saturday afternoon. The club has now made such arrangements that no delay of matches may be expected in future, except by reason of bad weather...
...prizes given at the intercollegiate athletic games, since their institution in 1876, Columbia has won 62; Harvard is second, with 47; Princeton a close third, with 45 prizes, being just one first and one second behind Harvard. The University of Pennsylvania is forth, with 27, and Yale a bad fifth, with only 11 prizes to her credit. The remaining 41 prizes, mostly second, are distributed between ten colleges...
...enemy had evacuated their position. A slow pursuit was at once begun, the rate of advance averaging two miles a day. Slowly the army of the Potomac crept forward until it assumed a position astride the Chickahominy river, which greatly embarrassed its operations. Ordinarily it is not deemed bad policy to have a river dividing an army. But the Chickahominy is an exceptional stream from the fact that its bottom is but little lower than its banks, and consequently from heavy rains is convertible into a large lake. Such was the position of the Union army on the morning...
...Douglass, of Lehigh University, said that the bad feeling caused by this interference of the college faculties was apparent. If professional trainers could not be employed, the spirit of college athletics would be rooted out, for while the association did not believe in much professionalism, a little was indispensable. It was then decided to call the roll of the colleges represented and ascertain the general feeling. Amherst's representative stated that he had been instructed to oppose the resolutions of the college faculties as a whole, but one section-that which allowed students only the four years of college...
...provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common one, but a graded distinction of ordinary professionals by which those who teach for a living are not excluded, but it reaches those who give public exhibitions, or exercise tendencies which would have a bad effect. The principle involved seemed to be clear to all, and it is perhaps better that such should be the case than that a set form of words should be adopted. Of course several concessions had to be made, and among them was one of the points which was especially hard...