Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rest of the number consists chiefly of book reviews, written for the most part with good sense and discrimination. Mr. Seldes's "American Literature: Currents and Whirlpools" somewhat ambitiously attempts a diagnosis of the diseases of "bad work and insignificant work" from which he believes the novel of this country to be suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with...
...spits of the spells of bad weather and incidental accidents which inevitably retard the schedule of construction of a large building, the progress on the Widener Library has been very satisfactory to those in charge. The delays have, by this time, been made up for and it is hoped that the roof will be completed on the northern half of the building before the seriously cold weather sets in. On the southern half, because of the bookstacks which occupy practically this entire portion, it is doubtful whether progress can be made as rapidly...
Until a few weeks ago there had been a great deal of complaint about the bad ventilation of Appleton Chapel, particularly on Sunday; but the evil has been removed by the simple expedient of starting the ventilating fans a little early, so that the air is fresh when the audience enters, while the fans are called upon only to keep it fresh as fast as consumed. We should suggest that a similar remedy be called into action in other halls, so that we may have a happy medium between a sleepy stuffiness and a chilly draft...
...bunch ahead. The Yale runners also gained when coming down from West Rock, and the Harvard men ran a hopeless race trying to catch them in the rough going afterwards. Boynton ran well in the last four miles, and MacLure did well-throughout, considering he had a bad cold. Captain Boyd and Blackman came up to expectations, Boyd setting a new record of 40 minutes and 7 2-5 seconds for the course, with Blackman 1-5 second behind...
This scrimmage added another to the already long injured list in the person of Hitchcock, who twisted his ankle so badly that he will probably not be able to play again until the Princeton game. Mahan went to the infirmary yesterday for an indefinite period with a badly swollen foot, due to some sort of infection. R. Curtis is also laid up with a bad leg, while O'Brien's strained side will keep...