Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senior and Sophomore germans. The great event of the week, however, will be the Junior promenade in the Second Regiment armory on Wednesday night. As usual it has been promised that this will be the most brilliant entertainment of its kind, and certainly the expenditure has been sufficiently lavish to warrant such a promise...
...proposed in the future to hold the annual promenades at Yale in the new gymnasium, instead of in the armory as in the past. This will very greatly reduce the lavish expenditure at present necessary...
...wooden spoon entertainments in 1870. The first junior promenade, however, was held under that name in 1851. It was originated to defray the expenses of the band that played at the junior exhibition and was so successful that it became a settled thing. The promenades now require such a lavish expenditure that it is understood that several members of the faculty thing it unwise to permit them to be continued...