Word: bons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen celebrated their victory over Yale '92. last evening. the class hired a wagon and dragged the team amid a blaze of fire works to Jarvis where they built a huge bon-fire. They heartily cheered the team, the upper classes and themselves and appeared to enjoy their victory in a fighting manner...
...element of betting is left out, can surely do no harm. If the game is won, is it not natural for the victors to celebrate their victory? What harm can be done by the discharge of a few fireworks, rockets and bombs, or the building of a bon-fire-in a judiciously selected place? Of course we do not mean to countenance wanton destruction or endangering of property, but we cannot believe that a mild celebration is out of place or deleterious to the healthful tone of college spirit. The president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The first Cambridge Harvard-Yale game has peen played, and we may be pretty proud of our nine's hard earned victory. It is most proper that our joy should find expression by means of bon-fires, fireworks, and horns if necessary. Let us hope, however, there will never occur again such an unorganized celebration as was witnessed night before last. A most deservedly popular Glee Club concert was spoiled not only by the howls of the predominating muckers and roughs, [roughs being as I understand it, adult muckers]: but also by the injudicious, although no doubt...
Later in the evening the roughs ran the bon-fire and threatened to rush the students off Jarvis Field. If the reign of the Cambridge roughs has begun, I congratulate myself that this is my last year at college. One recalls with regret the days when the policing of the yard was under the supervision of the class of '85, when although the mucker was not excluded from the yard, rough element was suppressed and kept quiet...
...celebrate Dartmouth's reinstatement into the base-ball league, the students marched in line through the town blowing tin horns, and a large bon-fire was built on the campus...