Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Games shall be postponed on account of bad weather only...
...regular meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club will be held this evening in Harvard 1, at 7.30. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the ethical drama has a bad effect on public morals." H. G. Gray '96 and R. H. E. Starr '96 will speak on the affirmative; R. B. Sprague '97 and R. G. Valentine '96, on the negative...
...last week. Kales was absent during the whole week and C. Brewer stroked the crew. Brewer's place at No. 4 was taken alternately by Fox and Howland. The latter was substitute on last year's crew, and has been prevented from rowing before this year by a bad knee...
...value than silver: Jevons, pp. 305, 311-313. - (b) A silver standard would injure trade. - (1) Would produce violent fluctuations in foreign exchange: F. A. Walker, Political Economy, pp. 409-411. - (2) Would render the value of debts uncertain. - (c) The morale of tinkering with the currency is bad: Taussig, 126-127. - (d) Change to a silver standard means another financial crisis. - (e) A silver standard is dishonest. - (1) Injures creditor. - (2) Does not permanently help debtor...
...duties. His office, which the Dean well terms a kind of gangway, offers wretched accommodations for himself and the subordinate clerks who aid him in the extensive and elaborate book-keeping, which is an essential part of his work. The case is similar, though perhaps not so bad, with the offices of the Dean and the Secretary. In all, the need of more space and more thorough equipment is so great as to be almost imperative...