Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Previous winners of medals will be handicapped one point on their aggregate score. Entries for the medal 25 cents. After the regular matches as many additional matches will be shot as the time allows. A full attendance is desired. Notice of postponement on account of bad weather will be posted on the university bulletin board if necessary...
...bad grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate...
...year was selected for the trip is that if will enable the matches to be played during the English and Irish "season." If a trip was made during our summer vacation there would not be any paying audience, as people would all be away from town. This makes it bad for college men, as much for us as for any, because the trip takes in the whole period of the annual examinations. Nevertheless, the men at Princeton and Yale hope to get leave of absence, provided that they are chosen, and it seems probable that our faculty would be lenient...
...call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body, for that matter, as the latter often comes in contact with the walls and balustrades. Bad as this custom is under ordinary circumstances, how much worse it would be in cases of fire or even of sudden illness during the night. The expense would be small to leave one jet burning all night, and it would at least show the belated student the stairs...
Cornell is making a bad precedent in importing a mummy. Most colleges get them easier. They are usually harvested after dark and are not always as well preserved as the Cornell scion of the Pharaohs. The students use their scalpels upon them at five dollars a head. Some of the mummies sit in professor's chairs and are nominally alive. These have enough stale jokes in stock to make the average collegian atone for the fun he gets out of it. [Syracuse Standard...