Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...desperate, and pounded on the floor with truly Sophomoric courage. Up came a wrathy Senior, and informed me that he should practise on his cornet as much as he pleased, and that if I did n't like it I could move. And this was not the worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties on it all day long, accompanying a chorus of some twenty classmates. I could n't study at all, with so much noise to distract my thoughts from Italian Grammar and Natural History; result...
...worst-looking fellow thus...
...what it contains; whether good or bad, it is all the same." The "bitter consequences," of course, are the "injuring of the brain by losing all the intellectual faculties and also ruining the body by sickness," to say nothing of the fact that it leads one into "the worst of crimes." What a hot-bed of iniquity Gore Hall must...
...medium scholars of the class on whom the privilege of voluntary recitations has the worst effect. The absence of strong purpose, which is the cause of their mediocrity, also prevents their making a valuable use of a liberty which they nevertheless eagerly welcome. In order to stimulate the middle part of the class, and at the same time allow a beneficial liberty to that part of the class who could use such a privilege, the present system of regulated voluntary attendance was decided upon; and the Dean thinks that an extension of this system to the Junior class might profitably...
...foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator...