Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads," and the "War Papers," are, it must be said, funny and laughable, but still they appeal to an inferior taste. Most men, who laugh, will also wish that something better, something less forced and more appropriate to a college paper and more in keeping with the Lampoon's former dignity, had been given them to read or look at. Startling pictorial tragedies, or comedies, and terribly humorous but also...
...entries for the parallel bars were: Loud, '87, Batchelder, L. S., A. T. Perkins, '87, J. C. Faulkner, '86. Many difficult feats were performed, the cup being awarded to Mr. Batchelder. The work of Loud and Perkins was little inferior to that of the winner...
...brought into notoriety despite his tastes. Poverty is no friend to art. Hard times have exercised a profound influence on English and Continental art. All must be "pretty" and "cheerful." Riches are necessary to the artist. If he does not have them, he is crushed and forced to do inferior work. Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, da Vinci, Holbein, if alive to-day would show that notoriety is attained now as it was at the periods in which they lived. The two artists who will be ranked as the great artists of this century are Meissonier and Adolf Mensel. Yet these...
...pleasant southerly exposure), hall, floor, and end exposure were the chief considerations in ranking the rooms. A redistribution took place every year and the system depended on the general principle that if a man had a good room one year, he must be content with an inferior one the next. The choice was made by classes, beginning with the seniors, the man who had occupied the most undesirable room the year before being allowed to choose first, and so on; those who had particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged...
...stood up for the second and third rounds. In the second round the made a brace which availed him nothing. He was knocked out in the third, and Williams was given the bout. Williams had considerable science, but he should not have slugged a man so obviously his inferior...