Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...symbol so bad...
Several of the law students complain that the acoustic properties of the lecture rooms in the new Law School are very bad...
...expected to behave themselves unless repeatedly admonished-we mean the "muckers." Everyday during term-time the "mucker" is present in the yard in small or great quantities, and is so unrestrained by the usages of polite society that he be comes a positive nuisance. It is bad enough to be obliged to see these little rascals always about, but to hear their discordant yells, and to be followed about and to be literally besieged by them at some hours of the day, is more than can be patiently borne. But their presence is most of all obnoxious when there...
...that the academic world was scandalized by the desertion of one of the professors of the Boston University from the society of his learned associates, and his subsequent debut upon the stage as an actor in a play of his own composition This one case certainly was bad enough had it shood by self as an example of the innate depravity even of the most cultivated and most gifted professional mind- as a convincing proof that professors like other men are mortal, a theory which has heretofore met with a very cold reception from the learned world at large...
...effort to be re-instated in the college base-ball league the Princetonian says very soundly : "It is no argument in her favor that Harvard has not done well this year. Besides being a reasonable distance away, Harvard is a representative university, and whether her nine be good or bad for a particular year, no college can be said to have the championship unless Harvard has competed against...