Word: mirthful
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...morrow will be given up to these festivities almost entirely. The Glee and Banjo Clubs give their semi-annual concert to-morrow evening, and as they are each in splendid trim an excellent concert is expected. A unique feature will be introduced, which will create great mirth if nothing more, in the shape of a quartette of the poorest singers in college, it being a physical impossibility for any one of them to carry a tune. The Ivy Club gives a tea to the patronesses of the assembly from three to five, to which about two hundred invitations have been...
...There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature...
...talking seriously, after this uncontrollable mirth which the glad intelligence aroused in us, we must welcome this great improvement with the heartiest approval. It is only natural that Harvard could not for a great while longer show her face in the academic world while she had some 290,000 volumes stored away, inaccessible to everybody, as soon as the sun chose...
...think I might have dwelt more on the pettiness of the proctor system as it now exists. Peace must be preserved in the college dormitories, it is true, and none desire it more than the students themselves. But they do protest when at every slight ebullition of mirth or casual congress of friends the proctor's knock is heard at the door. The proctors should remember that their office is not to quell disturbances annoying to themselves only, as much as it is to stop everything that may call forth reasonable complaints from anyone in the building. They should remember...
...beginning of the second half-year is justly considered a fitting time for rejoicing. There is one community in college, however, which certainly deserves our pity at this period of general mirth and festivity. We refer to the upperclassmen who are so unfortunate as to room in the north entry of Thayer. From time to time we have heard vague rumors concerning the action of certain freshmen in that entry. In the absence of any definite proof to sustain such rumors, we have passed the matter over in silence. A few nights ago, however, we had the misfortune...