Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public virtue - (3) interest in municipal affairs. - (b) It would be accompanied by serious evils. - (1) It would be difficult to determine what is "reasonable." - (2) It would be difficult to apply. - (3) It would work crudely and unequally. - (x) By excluding many good voters. - (y) By including many bad voters. - (4) It would remove a strong educational force. - (5) It would lead to agitation and discontent...
...election, and only adopted four years with re-eligibility as an incident of the Electoral College; today they would probably favor the affirmative. The evils of the present arrangement are: use of office-holders by the president for political purposes as Harrison used them at Minneapolis; failure to veto bad bills for fear of offending a section of the party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes of party; in a word, instability and inefficiency...
...with pitched balls. Brown had plenty of work to do, but although he made few errors, his throwing to bases was poor, and his passed balls and missed third strikes were numerous. With the exception of McVey the infield was weak and in the outfield Chandler made two bad errors. Edmunds distinguished himself by a fine running catch of a long fly by Scott. The sophomores put up a much poorer game than on Friday and could neither bat nor field. Anderson had an off day and made some glaring errors. Perry pitched a fairly good game but was rather...
...score of 4 to 3. The game was intensely exciting and the result remained in doubt until the last man was put out. Harvard held the lead for six innings but in the seventh Highlands lost his head, making two errors, which, with two hits and a bad fumble by Wrenn, allowed three runs to be made and lost the game. Outside of this no fault could be found with his pitching. Pappalau also did well, keeping the hits well scattered. The playing of both sides was rather unsteady, though at times very brilliant. The feature of the game...
...meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club last night the subject was: "Resolved, that the modern ethical drama has a bad effect on public morals." R. H. E. Starr '96 and H. G. Gray '97 spoke for the affirmative, R. B. Sprague '97 and F. D. Pollak '96 on the negative. The vote on the merits of the debate resulted in favor of the negative. The next meeting of the club will be especially for freshmen who wish to compete for membership. There will be one more meeting after that for the election of officers...