Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence of science, and the progress of religious freedom. He fears that too much of the wealth, however, goes for the erection of showy building and the founding of scholarships, while but little is devoted for the maintenance of the academic staff. The result of this is very bad, as the writer proves. The professors have to rely for their support on lecturing, writing for magazines, and other outside work, neglecting their courses. Another bad result is that young men of talent, naturally fitted for teachers, are deterred from entering academic careers...
...interested in its welfare. To answer the last and least important objection first, the Glee Club, to my certain knowledge, was never asked to furnish a quartette at the Pi Eta theatricals. Individual members were approached and were finally obliged to refuse to sing on account of the bad condition of their voices. Their indisposition was certainly an excuse for them personally. How the club can be called to account on a matter that was never brought before it, I do not see, especially since a quartette has never yet been a part of its organization. With regard...
...made last year. They will therefore row in the same kind of boat, and the men will row in pairs. There have been some minor changes in the rigging, but practically it remains the same. The belief was so general last year that the race was lost through the bad steering of the coxswain, and the feeling against him was so strong, that he embraced the first opportunity he got to leave college. This year D. B. Tucker, the man who ought to have been coxswain last year, and would have been if the captain had not had more authority...
...Smith's College means "Naughty Bad." - [Amherst Student...
...pays for the marking of his court, whether or not it was marked before the new rules were passed, less than half the amount charged heretofore, besides having the privilege of using any court when unoccupied by its holders. The regulations, in our opinion, are not only "not bad" but are as good as could have been devised to start our tennis affairs in a systematic and well regulated form...