Word: brawls
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...make Charlot Granger drunk in order to keep him out of the way until Genevote and Granger are married. Corbineli, who is still in league with his young master, arranges a plot by which Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play...
...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...
...sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like the celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...
Smoking cigars, playing billiards, joining in the drunken brawl...