Word: diversionism
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The riot began when the Freshmen sent a shower of logs from the windows of the dormitories ostensibly in an attempt to break as many electric lights as possible in the Oval. Their efforts were largely successful and, lacking further diversion along the same line, a convocation ensued which resulted...
Man or Devil. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in any show is a signal for a certain quantity of thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely...
One of his papers might well be entitled "A Discourse upon the Corruption of Raincoats at Harvard University," and he could doubtless afford his readers no little diversion by describing a rainy night in Cambridge, and the students, who, happy in the consciousness of having made themselves conspicuous, parade the...
Camels permit themselves but one vice, an innocent diversion of which these pseudo-docile beasts are ashamed. At night, having first ascertained that the occupants are asleep, they scratch their necks against the ropes of the tents.
One more diversion is about to be taken from the holiday pilgrims of Massachusetts highways. After the first of July, billboards of excessive size are to be razed, and among them those which mark the sites of first houses, Indian massacres, and colonial gin-mills. The beneficent oil company, which...