Word: bacchanalia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unsettled, unhappy, and unnerved, 750 impotent Yale undergraduates this week begged the Vassar hierarchy to send them a few girls for their Derby Day weekend on May 1. In a matronly gesture, President Blanding of Vassar had previously restricted her charges to campus for the duration of the Eli bacchanalia...
...evening found Crimson adherents downcast gridiron wise, it also found them attending what conservative observes called the most extensive bacchanalia since last year's Yale game. The discouragement lasted through the first few hours, but after that nobody cared very much...