Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LONGWOOD.Bixby, C. Clark, by Joy...
...Joy, b. Bixby...
...Joy, C. R. 20 Holyoke...
...gratifying success of our nine. That the brass band and many students went to meet the nine on their arrival in Boston is commendable. If the whole college had turned out en masse to welcome their return to Cambridge and had spent an hour in the wildest expression of joy, such action would not have exceeded the demands of college patriotism. For whatever of this took place I have nothing but approval. But I consider it outrageous that through the whole evening and far into the night such an infernal noise should be kept up that...
...trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl said: "Mr. Blank, I should think you would be so glad to meet Lord So-and-so; you know he is a real Englishman...