Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...
...that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic cheers exceeding all bounds of legitimate applause, may drift into intentional preparations to secure victory by vociferation,--a poor way to lose the contest, to be sure, but a worse way to win it. This is the real mischief of the business,--not in the act itself, but in the exaggeration and ill-directed utilization. Such occurrences as the explosive demonstrations by yachts aligned upon the last mile of boat races, demonstrations strictly forbidden by the course-regulations, and which render any communications in the boats themselves impossible...