Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what his respected older brother" wants, he will follow that lead...
...ball on Bates's 14-yard line, from where Hardwick made a beautiful buck through left guard and over the line. He failed to kick the goal, the ball bouncing from one of the upright posts. The next score was a safety by Talbot of Bates, after a bad pass had gone over his head and rolled over the goal-line. That was toward the end of the game and no more scoring was expected. But Mahan, after running around end 30 yards made a nice goal from the 25-yard line, bringing the score...
...Smith's preposterous "Page from the Life of the Missing Link" seems really to do its work. It is the kind of thing that a man writes as a "part," perhaps; but it is thoroughly funny and sincere. Of the other stories "There Was One," though not as bad as its title, is a study in anti-climax which hardly entertains us enough as we go along to make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush...
...motto, "Know thyself." If you go out haphazzardlike, just for the sake of going out, you will fall. Choose an interest which is really an interest to you and for which you know that you have the qualifications. Splurging here and there and succeeding nowhere is nearly as bad as not trying at all. In either case you need expect no sympathy from the men who are going to choose their successors from among...
...anything, no matter how small, should consider it at least a duty, if not a privilege, to contribute to the Fund, and those who can afford nothing, should at least show sufficient interest and class spirit to notify the Treasurer of the fact. The Fund is in a very bad way: every man's support is needed. Will not the 300 members, who have as yet shown no interest in the Class Fund, fill out pledge cards and send them in with the first installments immediately? It takes very little trouble to do so, and will save the Treasurer...