Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Appleton Chapel yesterday, was little better than humiliating. That a service to commemorate those of our University who have died on the field should draw barely enough to fill a third of the Chapel is a terrible indictment of the majority of the University. For it shows that our joyous, carefree, trifling population were so occupied with themselves over their little businesses that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost one of the very few opportunities given them to show that they are alive and sensitive to the great agony of this war, which...
Where will be your glory then, O Football? When the swift lightnings bear the joyous news, "Harvard has moved a bishop into Bombay's king row and captured India's queen...
When all the pyrotechnics of logic have been displayed to prove that the Union is a true Palladium of democracy, when the Unionists are thoroughly satisfied that Compulsion is a naughty word for polite society, when everyone is convinced that the Union seethes with joyous and turbulent students, and when everything has been said and done to demonstrate this important fact, that the Union is worthy of our support, because some say that it should be worthy of support--then, the smoke clears and we note the following handwriting upon the wall...
Tickets at $1.25 a throw are the only necessities for the joyous occasion. These may be bought at Leavitt & Peirce's, Matthews 1, or Thayer 32. The advantages of being a ticket-holder are obvious. In the first place, no one else will be allowed at the picnic. Moreover the following commodities will be furnished to everyone possessing a pasteboard certificate: Transportation to the island,--and back if desired; costume, which may be obtained in Thayer Common Room today or tomorrow; lunch; real refreshments; entertainment...
...CRIMSON therefore rises in its editorial might, and proclaims that Saturday, May fifteenth, shall be Straw Hat Day throughout the joyous land of Cambridge...