Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the Corps was so searchingly criticized by Colonel Applin, it was unquestionably in a bad way. The discipline that was maintained last summer had been worn away through apathy and indifference until the whole atmosphere was distinctly bad. At the psychological moment came Colonel Applin, and in his opportune arrival the Corps has certainly shown improvement in the respects he criticized. But the time has been short, and it will be hard to remember everything this afternoon. Every hand raised in ranks and every infraction of strict discipline will be an illuminating commentary on our former laxity...
...different effect. Colonel Applin openly and in good, clear English remarked that he was not impressed with our work, that we are half-hearted in our drill, and, in short, that the discipline, appearance and marching of both our R. O. T. C. and that of Yale is decidedly bad...
...words came as a shock to us; we have been fed up with so many compliments on the excellence of every maneuver we execute that we did not know what to make of this man who openly told us we were distinctly bad. Not that the University minds being told that it has faults; it does not. But what aroused us was the fact that each and every member of the R. O. T. C. has known right along that things were in a bad way. We have known it, we have discussed it, and then we have blundered along...
Despite a bad loss at Cornell last Saturday, the M. I. T. track men defeated the University runners in the Stadium yesterday afternoon by the decisive score of 67 points to 50. In all the dashes and distance runs the Technology team was clearly far superior to its opponents, and it was only in the weights and jumps that the Crimson men showed to good advantage...
When the muddle over the aircraft situation gets so bad that there are threats and charges of criminal prosecution, it is time that the matter be taken hold of with a firm hand. Like many other of our war projects, the whole affair is surrounded with a haze of conjecture and uncertainty, but the mists have been cleared away sufficiently to reveal corruption and downright fraud of the worst order. The reports of Mr. Borglum, the special commissioner, and of the Aeronautical Association of America, when added to the recent admission that building was practically at a standstill, leave these...