Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every man but one made a single, and in addition Hayes made a home run. Brown evidently was not feeling well and made four bad errors. It is unfortunate that no regular umpire was present and that men from '95 and '96 were called on to officiate. Both sides took exception to the umpiring and '95 especially found cause to complain against Fairchild...
...true remedy for the existing evil of bad nominations is not an abandonment of the caucus system, but in reform. - (a) Civil service reform. - (1) The overthrow of the spoils system will remove the chief incentive to machine management of caucuses: R. H. Dana, Forum. II. 496. - (b) Introduction of state regulation of caucuses: Penn. Monthly, vol. 12, p. 184; Mass. Acts of 1888, chap. 441, Acts of 1889, chap. 413, sec. 3; Acts of 1892, chap. 416. - (c) Education of the voter: Hon. Adin Thayer's speech, Boston Herald...
...freshmen and succeeded in holding down his opponents to two hits, one of them a scratch. Reed also did well, and scattered the eight hits so that they were of little effect. The game, however, was lost for '95 in the first. Then a couple of hits and three bad errors netted three runs, and the score stood three to nothing through the remaining eight innings...
...federation requires good feeling to be successful: Dicey, Introduction. - (b) The Irish Parliament cannot be trusted to settle the land question, for England is bound in honor to the landlords: Fortn. XLV, 861; Sat. Rev., CLIV 291; Blackwood vol. 139, p. 684. - (c) It would set a bad example...
...editorials are below the standard and are decidedly weak. There is no strong position taken in any of them; the general tone running through them is one of complacent self satisfaction. Everything is going about as it ought to, our faults are not very bad; the college is really all right...