Word: worst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These are the worst specimens of student poetry, and I wonder why the editors of the college papers ever let them get into their columns. If such as these appear in print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last...
...only useful but even absolutely necessary, is closely connected with the question just discussed, but differs from it in one very important point. Then it was a question of selecting, from what was outside, the best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost of every feeling of real kindness, courtesy, and friendship. These are only...
...good and evil in the world had been attributed to four causes, Material (good), Formal (good), Efficient (bad), Final (very bad), first formulated by the great Stagirite. ???en ???thre came a new man, who said that there were not enough, and added a fifth, the Lost Cause (worst of all). This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery of Beck, a place still famous...
Where the worst of all deeds by the students are done...
...worst of all things that are found on this street