Word: badness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...outrage which I have narrated, and which suggested this course of reasoning, is a good test of its correctness. For if hazing is a bad thing, we should naturally expect that the consequences of its abolition would not be disastrous. And what do we see? Why, that members of the first class which has ever been exempt from hazing, in less than two months after entrance, have dared to assail one of the most cherished palladia of upper classmen. This state of affairs is one which arouses grave feelings of alarm and demands the deepest consideration. And, in order that...
...take a just pride. Yet the number who acquaint themselves with these things by observation as well as reading is small. Every year many students, to spend their long vacation, hurry off to Europe, are dazzled and delighted by the brilliancy of its splendid capitals, and come back with bad French and worse German, but have never visited either Lexington or Concord, and can scarcely tell the causes which gave them a prominence in our history...
...knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight of Freshman's pocket-Bible. Enter a lovely village. Setting sun, lowing herds, etc. Both of us a little tired. People stare. Freshman sings...
...asks Freshman for a chew. All waltz. Knapsacks not so heavy as they were. Take greased-lightning express at next village. Find ourselves going the wrong way. Don't care. Arrive home 11.30. Mangled by pet bull-dog. Four hundred and fifty miles in three days, not so bad! Mean to walk to Cuba next summer...
...differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would-be statesmen, both good and bad, who have yet attained any note in this country, been well educated, that a self-educated man even has there been looked upon with wonder...