Word: festal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Reaction" is a fairly clever sketch of the evolution of the typical Harvard junior, food of sports and the festal rites of Bloody Monday, from the chrysalis of the theorizing and dreaming sub-freshman...
...manifestation of savage impatience. The old chiefs, discontented with the present, looked back on the past and remembered only the times when they shot the buffalo, forgetting the intermediate periods of hunger; they forget the days in their youth when they were ill-clad, and remember only the festal days when their bodies were gaudily decorated...