Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the most striking thing about the December Monthly is that every bit of it is well written. There is not one bad thing in the number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail...
...electioneering and campaigning which was exhibited during the election last Wednesday would have been tolerated and even commended in a national election. In a college, and particularly in Harvard College, where ability and merit have always been universally recognized and appreciated, such methods are distinctly bad taste and unworthy of our best traditions and ideals. It is to be hoped that there will not be a repetition of these tactics next Tuesday...
Princeton set to work to get rid of these bad tendencies in preparation for the expected hard game with Dartmouth. That this preparation was necessary was shown by the close score of the game which Princeton was lucky enough to win, 7 to 3. One mis-sent Dartmouth forward pass, which Driggs intercepted and carried 65 yards for a touchdown, spelled victory for the Nassau team, although in the beginning of the game Dartmouth led by one field goal. The first score of the season against Princeton was made by Captain Gerrish, of the Hanover team, who kicked a placement...
Good teaching should have its say; bad doctrines will kill themselves if allowed time and opportunity. They don't need to be garroted. --Pittsburgh Leader...
...year. One man got a gross total of 12 points on his paper, three or four others received less than 20 and not a few had under 30. However, as the figures show, the class as a whole knew more than half of the questions which is not so bad in these days of sporting page literature. Bowdoin Orient...