Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...afforded our readers an opportunity to judge for themselves of the general character of productions of this sort and to forecast perhaps what prospects the academic world holds forth to the great public at large for the production of future poetic genius. This prospect it cannot be denied is bad, is all but hopelessly bad. And yet there is one hope. Our selections while fairly representative of the average run of versicles of the sort has not presented any specimens of those exceedingly rare gems-good verses written by college poets. And yet good poetry has more than once been...
...Among nine bad if one be good...
...college tennis courts have been growing worse every year. They are a little better now, after a summer of rest, but if they are used until late this autumn they will undoubtedly be worse next spring than ever before. Last year they were bad enough, and then we had more of them, and those now under the new track were the best of all. This is a poor lookout for those who expect to play tennis on college ground, and they are already beginning to grumble because the Tennis Association does not seem anxious to take measures to improve...
...Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel and John Adams; of the classes of 1740 and 1755, respectively. So active was Samuel Adams in behalf of the people that...
...again took the wrong turning, the scent not lying well, and went nearly half a mile out of the way before they discovered their mistake. From Beacon St. the route lay over Somerville hill by a very roundabout way to Union and Central Squares. Here the scent was very bad and the route very winding, so that over and over again the hounds lost their way. From Central Square the route lay by Magazine St., across the river to the Mill-Dam, here again the hares or rather hare, as Mr. Rust had had to give up, thus losing...