Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Rev. M. J. Savage took for his text "The Lord is good to all." He said: That life is good in which satisfaction outweighs its opposite. Because a man falls short of his ideal is no sign that his life is bad. Those only who are extremely conceited or who have no high ideals ever feel perfectly satisfied with their work. A man's pleasure is not in what he has done but in the doing. The existence of moral evil and death do not prove that the Lord is not good to all. The experience of pain...
...well known that in the years following the complete adoption of the elective system and the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel the athletic affairs at Harvard got into a bad way and we suffered several years of uninterrupted defeat at the hands of Yale. It is not too much to say that this fact gave and still gives more mental discomfort to the student body than almost anything that could have happened. The pain of it was not compensated by any evidence of the increase in numbers or the surprising general prosperity of the University. Our defeats...
Whether we are biased or not, many of us are of the opinion that examinations are at best a bad thing. But inasmuch as we have them and are now deep in them, I should like to remark a little on Examinations as I Have Found Them. There are examinations and examinations. In one kind, everyone in the room, even if he is not writing, has a kind regard for the feelings of his fellow man, and nothing happens to interrupt the thought of the workers; in this kind, it is a man's own fault if he doesn...
...rowing. If the men knew how to row they ought to make a boat go pretty fast for they are all tried men in one kind of athletics or another and average something like 173 or 174 pounds per man. There is, however, no sport in which strength and bad form will make less of a show than in rowing...
...Straight Tip," by J. J. McNally is being played at the Hollis Street Theatre. The play is well received and deserves praise, as it is not at all bad for a farce...