Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman classes have been unusually negligent in paying their quota towards the support of our sports. It is well known that many men of moderate means contribute liberally, whereas others, who are far better able, refuse to contribute at all. Among the latter are the men who shout loudest over Harvard's victories. If these men refuse from a total lack of all class or college feeling, they deserve the most sincere pity; but if they refuse from pure selfishness, they deserve only contempt. Hardly less culpable are those men who, after subscribing, elude the collectors in every possible...
...troubles by the yard, complains to us of the noises that disturb the college precincts sometimes till mid-night; and we heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying. Blue lights are very pretty...