Word: mischiefism
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...Society was excellent in every respect. Mr. Belshaw, who played the title role in both comedy and farce, was inimitable, and showed a wonderful diversity of talent in portraying first the good-natured but vain-glorious Papa Perrichon, and then the rollicking Irish boy, who manages to get into mischief every minute, and to get out again immediately after, by use of his mother-wit. Messrs. Lord and Jack played the parts of the two rival suitors with excellent taste. The female roles were taken by Messrs. Fox and Cushing, the former in tone and action portraying faithfully the French...
...This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems, in a perfectly orderly manner), whereby some sixty students made public confession of their conversion, for a simple evening, to Mr. Oscar Wilde's gospel of dress...
...retire from Princeton College, and that Dr. Hall of New York will take his place. "In the first place," he said, "we have fifty more students at present than ever before, and our standard of scholarship is higher than ever. The only trouble we have had has been the mischief of a few thoughtless freshmen, and they have been punished, and we do not anticipate any repetition of such occurrences...
...College boys are so full of mischief that they ought to be spoken to. We shall put some of them in the "Drawer" and shut them up. It has just come to our knowledge that the learned and distinguished president of one of our colleges has been made the victim of a practical joke, which we are induced to record with the expression of our regret that the boys will do such things. It seems that the worthy president went down to Virginia, where he was personally a stranger, to attend an ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were...
...found hardly one who had a sound heart. The heart had been overworked, had been compelled to pump the blood faster than it could bear, and its power as a heart was impaired for life. It was older than the rest of the body. All excessive muscular exertion makes mischief with young people, before the frame is hardened and compacted by time. The effects may not appear at once, but will remain in the fact of lessened powers, and premature age - or death. The growing use of what are called nervines or stimulants, will increase the tendency to heart trouble...