Word: worst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amount of previous experience which will be not only of great benefit to them but to the other members of the team as well. If the freshmen will only remember that Harvard base-ball stock is way above par this year and that it would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable but nevertheless glorious place on the fence...
...course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means of a compulsory service? We cannot believe it. On the contrary, we believe a compulsory service one of the very worst means that could be devised. Those ideals of life which Harvard has given men would have been given them if a compulsory chapel had never been thought of. Moral teaching does not gain any efficacy from compulsion. Yet this the present system quite neglects. Compulsion is continued because...
...were to judge the character of all from the positively expressed characters of the few, we would agree with some of our staid, well-meaning friends in thinking that "those Harvard boys are the worst lot this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such...
...college man to leave one college and go to another is to ask him to be a freshmen over again, to go through the trials of learning new ways and making new acquaintances a second time - trials which no one hungers after. But these are not the worst features of such changes. If it is hard to go to a strange college, it is still harder to leave the college where one has formed friendships and attachments. It is harder, too, to give up all the feelings of college loyalty which form such an important part of student life. College...
...subscriptions. According to all accounts the alumni who have so far been seen have given their hearty support to the plan verbally, but it yet remains to be seen what they will do financially. There is no doubt that Columbia needs a gymnasium of her own in the worst way, as she is entirely dependent upon a preparatory school close by for the means with which to train her crews. There is but little question as to the location of the gymnasium as there are several lots in close proximity to the college which would serve as excellent sites...