Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University tennis team will meet Amherst in the first home match of the season on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. In case of bad weather, arrangements have been made to play the match on the covered courts of the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. The Harvard team will play in the same order as on the Southern trip: Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16, G. C. Caner '17, W. Rand, 3d, '17, and L. Curtis, 2d, '16. In the doubles Williams and Caner will pair off, and Rand and Curtis will be the second pair...
...Advocate, if we may judge from Professor Meyer's outburst, has become the sinister agent behind new international bad blood. The Advocate recently held a small prize contest for undergraduate poets, which was won by a piece entitled "Gott Mit Uns." Professor Meyer, unfamiliar with conditions here, has hurriedly judged this poem to be a "violation of neutrality," and has taken it to be representative at once of the well-determined sentiments of the gentlemen who pronounced it good verse, of President Lowell, and of Harvard...
...mere consistency is a desideratum, the chief virtue of the present number of the "Advocate" is that it maintains a certain harmony of inferiority. Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble...
...statement as made at the class dinner last night is as follows: INCOME ACCOUNT. Balance from W. Willcox, Jr., Oct. 31, $693.80 1914-15 class collection to March 31, $718.25 Interest, $9.83 Red Book contribution, $665.00 Total income, $2,086.88 EXPENDITURES. Total expenses to March 31, $639.51 Bad checks, $19.20 Total expenditures, $658.71 Total balance...
...year, its position in the Intercollegiate Meet was seventh, to which record may be added a defeat by Yale. Nor are prospects this year much more promising. The team has been crippled by the unexpected loss of several of its best men. Some of this can be laid to bad luck, but by no means all of it. Something is fundamentally wrong; something which only a radical change can correct...