Word: brawl
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes of the Yard absolutely at any hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members or the memories of an evening brawl. Surely the absolute certainty of awakening everybody within the range of their discordant sounds, cries for correction of its cause more than the doubtful disturbance of an evening's social gathering...
...fresh aquatic brawl" of which the Spirit speaks is hardly worthy of mention. We do not think that any Yale paper (with the notable exception of the News) charges Harvard men with being "sneaks and scoundrels" in their action concerning the arrangements for next year's race. Harvard is simply helpless in this matter on account of the new arrangements of this year. The article in the News, we trust, was actuated by an unauthorized and ill-considered article in the Boston Herald, which does not in any way represent Harvard's sentiments. The News itself withdraws to some extent...