Word: jovialness
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...constant number of patrons, there has been a marked falling off in the decorum of its members. Particularly at the dinner hour has this been the case. Men take liberties that would not be countenanced in any other sort of a public dining hall. At the slightest provocation some jovial spirit clinks his glass, the majority, nothing loth, follows suit and a bedlam is the result. With this increase of noise there has been far too much thoughtless, although withal goodnatured, throwing of food about the hall. In this respect our reputation as a College of gentlemen has often times...
Tonight the CRIMSON will celebrate its thirty-seventh anniversary with the annual dinner in the Union. To the speakers, the past editors, the other, guests--in short to all the jovial company which will assemble at the festive board this evening, the CRIMSON extends the heartiest of welcomes...
...their program, but a college glee club is not intended merely to give public entertainments or dual concerts; it has a distinct function within the College. It should not only sing to the students, but should lead them in singing and serve, as its name implies, to make jovial occasions more jovial...
...play is a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the courtship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty...
...gentleman named Sencer. By clever deceit he won Sir Harry's consent to a union. The Wise-Woman was now sought by Sencer, Luce and Boyster. She promised that Sencer should forestall Gratiana's wedding and that Boyster should marry Luce. The last scene finds everyone at Hogsdon. Chartley, jovial and full of lies, was caught in his own net, and through his discomfiture everyone was made happy, including the inconstant hero, who returned to his first love...