Word: mischiefism
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...feel content and wend my way home. As I am about to mount the steps of the dormitory, I cast my eyes over toward the Delta of Memorial, and there I see three Freshmen standing near the statue of John Harvard, evidently up to some mischief. I watch until they are gone and then cross over to see what they have been up to. To my horror I see upon the scholarly and dignified head of our illustrious founder, what think you? an '88 plug hat! I hastened to relieve the good man from such a humiliating and embrassing position...
...University of California has some mischief-making sophomores, who have been beguiling innocent young applicants for admission, in putting them through the ordeal of begus examinations...
...entitle them to a place in the college should wish to indulge in such a practical joke it is really hard to understand. Certainly, as far as the joke was concerned, nothing could be sillier; and the only amusement of the inventor or inventors of this piece of mischief must have sprung from the knowledge that they had put a few men to some trouble...
...small bonfire on the steps of University Hall interrupted the proceedings of the faculty. After the bonfire he changed his vote, and six o'clock prayers were kept another year by a majority of one. On hearing the result he intimated that early rising would keep people out of mischief at night, and he certainly felt that six o'clock prayers would be unpleasant to the makers of the bonfire. Let us hope that they were...
...endowed schools under monastic rule; they had large playgrounds, and in those days French boys were adepts in all sorts of games. But when the church lands were confiscated in 1792 the great schools temporarily collapsed, and the revolutionary government, being in straits, sold the large playing fields. The mischief thus done could never be remedied...