Word: merriment
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Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
Stephen Leacock conclusively proved last evening in the Union that literature is getting sillier and sillier--he proved it so conclusively that the appreciative crowd of students from the University and Radcliffe that packed the Living Room was kept in a continuous uproar of merriment. Professor C. T. Copeland '82, introduced the speaker...
...learn with interest that the New York Times has been able to find cause for merriment at the expense of the University by an arraignment of the Hostess House. It is always a pleasure to be able to give others pleasure but in some cases this felicity is tinged with a certain degree of seriousness. We do not pretend to guess to what extent the Times meant its remarks, reprinted below, but the fact remains that such an editorial can go a long way in creating a false impression of Harvard in places beyond the confines of the Yard...
Although certain Harvard men are making the appearance of a new magazine the occasion for a little merriment, the affair may not forever have a humorous tinge. If the real publication has applied for a copyright it will not do for other persons to usurp its name and announce that they, too, have obtained a copyright, with all rights reserved. Ordinarily the Government has something to say about proceedings of this kind. Boston Transcript...
...Happy New Year" is heard throughout the land, but its meaning is different than in other years. This is our first war New Year and the happiness we wish our friends is not a personal happiness. We cannot expect the coming year to be one filled with pleasure and merriment, for war means death and no matter how successfully we battle the casualty lists are bound to grow as we take over an ever-increasing part of the Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness and victory are synonymous...