Word: hey-day
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...honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...
...march of time has outstripped the old tradition of Commons. Where the old boys sauntered casually along gravel paths, the undergraduate today dashes with determination from Sever to New Lecture Hall and to Leavitt and Peirce's windows. The Harvard men of Memorial's hey-day dined leisurely, and aided eloquence with loquacious draughts, but a schedule, measured by the unfailing Ingersoll, now limits his gustatorial pleasures to a few snatched moments, while the slogan "coffee or milk" is impotent to stimulate good fellowship. At present, the press of engagements has destroyed inclination as the motivator of the day...
...same hey-day in the blood which becomes intoxicated with a single plangent and stalwart line and clings there, forgetful of all else...
This is the hey-day of "College spirit" at Harvard. The reviewer takes this occasion to call to the attention of its creators this deficiency in their program, and to express a hope that the near future will see the college magazines with the circulation they so richly deserve...