Word: charivarious
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...dissolute-or, put it less harshly, wild-students than smaller institutions. But this can be truthfully said of their vices: They are more gentlemanly and less vulgar than those practised in country colleges. City students may drink more, and occasionally gamble; but they never give the Professors a charivari, or attack the President with bad eggs, or conspire against the college authorities and get expelled in a body. They have more affection and respect for their Alma Mater-more esprit de corps-more urbane manners. Students however, are not a class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make...
...terrible a nature as its name would imply, and there is no reason why it should not accomplish much good here if the future numbers are up to the standard of the one we have seen. It is our sincere hope that many more numbers of the "Cambridge Charivari" will be published, that the pictures of the succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, that the wit will always be as fresh, and, finally, that the Lampoon will become one of the permanent institutions of the College...