Word: mischiefism
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There is a rumor that a few men are trying to urge the freshmen to attend the "Black Crook" in a body. The freshmen have now been in college long enough to know better than to do such a foolish thing, and we hope that these few mischief lovers will desist from their attempt to make an absurd display of themselves...
...happened that three seats behind ours, i. e., directly in front of me, there was the largest, most luminous, and withal the most ravishing pair of dark-blue eyes that were ever given a girl to do mischief with. When I say large eyes, I don't mean your overgrown, beetling, codfish eyes; nothing of the sort; for though these were large, they were deep-set and full of dreamy meditation and potential merriment, and bespoke a deal of misery in store for some poor fellow...
...there's a woman in it. It was a melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked a young lady and young gentleman...
...interlude in the yard, where, being a large man, he would agree to wipe out B-rt-l- The Club were disposed to resent this speech; but a very learned man, H-xley by name, interposed, saying that the discussion would amuse Joseph and keep him out of mischief, and that if B-rt-l could stand it the rest of them could...
...elective system, where there is so much difference in the courses and professors, to conclude that one man is not as studious or has not as much ability as another because his rank happens to be lower, seems to us exceedingly illogical. It is the cause of real mischief to thorough scholarship and sound education. As soon as a student finds that his chance for a scholarship depends solely on the rank list, he will naturally, if a scholarship is the condition of his remaining in college, take those courses in which it is easiest to obtain a high rank...