Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carew, impersonated by Lawrence Cecil, his servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action...
...Leningrad or Tokyo, or Cape Town, he would not have known that Stanford had not beaten California for 20 years, but if he had awakened in Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...
...much publicity. Two months ago General Andrews gave orders that if the name of Izzy Einstein or Moe Smith appeared once in print, they would be fired. For two months their exploits have been hidden from the public eye. The public which looked upon them with as much delight as ever it looked on Robin Hood was denied their adventures-adventures as thrilling as those of Sir Launcelot, as those of Richard Coeur de Lion, as those of Don Quixote de la Mancha...
...transition between school and college, which is very great in itself, can be and generally is made, much more difficult by the upperclassmen, who seem to take an unaccountable delight in tormenting some luckless Freshman. Such was my conception of the situation which I should have to comfront at Harvard. It was not long, however, before I discarded my long conceived opinion of the hardship which a Freshman had to endure and began to realize that a Freshman at Harvard is treated like any other human being. I consider this innovation as another great step away from barbarism...
...Freshmen whose themes are quoted in today's CRIMSON emphasize their delight at the absence of hazing in the University. Presumably they wrote with the victroia in the next room sending in the strains of "Why do we all pick on Freshie" to their ears, and they seemed ignorant of the decision of last year's Freshman discussion club, which voted overwhelmingly for the reintroduction of hazing...