Word: bravados
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...tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways of spending an evening than parading about the college yard in phalanxes and testing their lungs to the utmost to see which party can outdo the other in bravado. Besides, the yard is no place for rushes, Jarvis Field is reserved for that intellectual occupation. As soon as the undergraduates bring themselves to the point when they can go to a freshman meeting without spoiling for the excitement of a "rush," the ban of the faculty on night meetings will...
...been frequently demonstrated that societies, in life as well as in colleges, are often a source of much evil, if secrecy be one of the things which are strenuously insisted upon. A spirit of bravado and lawlessness is likely to pervade a number of men bound to sink or swim together, a spirit which men as individuals never feel...
...have people talk to you about men of whom you have never heard or of books which you have never read. Why then should opportunities to lessen the number of those books and men, and so strengthen the mind, be cast aside for the sake of a boyish bravado or a sometime fashionable negligence...
...bravado of Yale" and the "insignificance of Columbia" are qualities that strike the attention of the Nassau...
...disturbance in the Yard Tuesday night was caused by a band of musicians accompanied by a numerous retinue of muckers attempting out of mere bravado to make a circuit of the College buildings. They did not succeed...