Word: hideous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been said, but the continual playing (?) of some members of the Harvard Brass Band is making some entries uninhabitable. Now that the Semis are upon us, it seems strangely wanting in good taste for certain members of that august body to make all the minutes between 3 and 9 hideous with practicing on brass instruments which are apparently very much out of condition, especially when again and again remonstrances both personally and in the papers have been made to them...
...earappalling hurrah. We shall deserve no respect at the throats of hurrahing nations, and we shall even be despised by the Frenchman, who although he tries to cheer by expressing a wish that somebody or something may live, has at least never descended to "rockets," or to such hideous yells as "Willyums, yams, yums...
About every Saturday afternoon a small band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...close of last term most of the students left Princeton for their homes, but a party of about thirty turbulent spirits, principally freshmen, remained in the town to "make night hideous." They marched through the streets, stoned the professor's house, broke off young growing trees, damaged fences, and demolished sixteen street lamps. If the newspapers may be believed, "this and previous depredations, consisting of greasing the railroad track and sawing off telegraph poles., etc., bear semblance to a speedy return of old time larks...