Word: blase
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit which seldom enough gets...