Word: jollyness
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One is the first-year dance, something virtually every 1950 graduate remembers. Radcliffe mixers, called "Jolly-Ups," drew Harvard first-years down Garden Street to meet their feminine counterparts.
"The dances were an absolute disaster," Davies says. "Like any get-acquainted dance, everyone was slightly ashamed to be there. They were very...white bread, soft drinks and lousy cookies. No upperclassman would ever be seen at a Jolly-Up."
"They were more impatient, less willing to go through the rituals" like Radcliffe's "Jolly-Ups" or Wellesley's get-to-know-you dances, Lionette recalls.
Admission to the club can be dicey for the club’s small membership. “The first criterion is that the man be a jolly fellow,” says Greenway, “you don’t have to be a captain of industry.?...
Long before they had even one fan, Schulz and Wirkus dreamed of being the morning team at a radio station. When it first became possible to send live audio over the Net, "we said, 'You know, this Internet thing is hot. I bet in six months we'll be rich...