Word: childish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...during the past week by students, and others encouraged by their example, who have tried to see the practice from vantage points about the wooden fence and from favorable places near the Locker Building. It is quite possible to have the grounds so closely patrolled as to prevent these childish performances, but we hope this word of warning will make such measures unnecessary...
...Mount Auburn street and in the Yard. We are only too glad to have regular Yard concerts early in the evenings, for they can be made one of the most attractive features of he spring term. But when it comes to the impromptu attempts at harmony by the childish individuals who must make a noise to show what a good time they are having, we draw the line. At the end of this week the University baseball team and the track team have two of their most important contests, and the crew has been in strict training for many weeks...
...current Advocate, in which Incident is the motive, the suspended interest is admirably maintained. Mr. Schenck's "Paper Chase" Mr. Tinckom Fernandez's "Necessary Child," and Mr. Morgan's "Hongkong to New York," alike leave us not only with a desire for more, but with a certain childish resentment against those authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet's "Book Agent" is too incomplete even for an Incident. Something ought to "happen" in the very briefest sketch. While the American book peddler is described with an effective sense of fun, his Irish colleague is not convincing...
...sense of humor blinds their sense of decency. The lecturer, very naturally fails to appreciate these outbursts, and as a result may remove from his remarks anything calculated to produce them. This makes the daily routine much dryer and the majority are as usual made to suffer for the childish amusement of the offenders...
...bonfire as a part of the John Harvard anniversary celebration. With clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed...