Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author of the 'Wages of Sin .' the strikingly original title of which gives evidence of much thought, has departed from his accustomed Parisian scenes in the present number and gives two sketches with American environment. The 'Enviable Man' is an ambitious affair and 'A Night in the Library,' it is trusted will be appreciated by the freshmen for whom it was prepared...
...class song. While it is probable that there are men who doubt the advantages of the cap and gown, there can be few who did not recognize a decided improvement in the abolishing of the class song. The class song has grown to be a very minor affair, and as regards its part in the programme at the tree exercises, considerable of a farce. It has never been learned and never sung with any unity or heartiness. The substitution of Fair Harvard last year was a welcome change. Everyone knows the air, the words are familiar and the associations connected...
...faculty was soon forced from its position, however, by the growing liberalism of the times, and in a few years both orators and poets were allowed to take their places and use Latin or English as they preferred. Even then Class-day did not become a brilliant affair, for few were interested beyond the Senior class...
...restriction on dancing and Class-day became a festival. Exhibition days had been for conviviality, but Class-day now appropriates this and the former soon died out. The Senior class began to issue invitations to all the friends of the members, to teas and spreads, and the whole affair came to be looked upon as the chief event of the whole college year...
...their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer says, irreparable from such a struggle, but the affair must not degenerate into a free fight...