Word: gay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Love likes not always laughter gay...
...School class of '85 ate its third annual dinner last evening at Young's. Twenty members were present. S. R. Dunham presided. These officers were elected: President, F. E. Parker; vice-president, F. F. Cutler; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Thayer; poet, E. L. Brown; toast-master, W. L. Gay...
...decorations on Beck Hall and Hilton Block are especially fine. The side of Beck Hall facing Harvard square is resplendent with the gay colors of the different classes, above which the figures 1636-1886 stand out in bold relief...
...students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite the tables with their canes. Even this ear-splitting uproar does not do full justice...
...effect is truly startling. Long, long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes...