Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Varsity crew spent the whole vacation at work, rowing. The weather has been very bad, all but two days, so as to interfere seriously with the rapid improvment of the rowing. However, it seems as though some progress has been made, but it is much less than was hoped for, before the recess. Saturday, the wind and water were so bad, that the crew did not row in the afternoon. Again, Monday, the conditions were bad, but the crew went out, and got some exercise, even if they did not learn anything in rowing...
...Vrooman, Sp., followed for the negative. He referred at length to Hill's connection with Tammany, and the record of that organization. He said that Hill's election would be setting a bad example to those who only god is success, as they would be led to follow Hill's corrupt methods...
...strangely intermingled, and especially did the fitness show itself, in the ending of the last number where the imaginative mind readily sees, as the composer intended, the triumph of an individuality over circumstance, the quiet close of a life lived in harmony with the good, and discord with the bad. This service, so suggestive, so symbolic of the beauty of Mr. Lowell's life, must have deepened the feeling of reverence and love which Harvard and Cambridge have felt for the student and poet...
...been the fashion in certain localities, of which this is one, to decry party organizations. All party machinery and party organizations are condemned as inherently bad. My purpose is to consider whether this attitude has any sound justification, either historically or practically, for its existence. As modern political government, conducted through the medium of political parties is peculiarly the work of the English speaking people, I shall not go outside the history of that people in this branch of the discussion...
...CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private members would introduce conflicting bills. - (2) Cabinet would advance privately any measures known to be unpopular. - (3) Responsibility would not be felt in the lack of any penalty for bad measures; International Review, VII, 151; Nation, XVI, 234. - (d) Uniformity of legislation would not be gained unless cabinet officers were united in policy, which could happen only if the whole cabinet was responsible for the acts of each member...