Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AFTER the mongrel day which '77 endured last year, and in view of recent sinister criticism of the "new regime," it behooves the present Senior class practically to demonstrate next June that its class spirit has not been destroyed by the elective system, and that it is willing to unite all its forces in getting up a joyous Class...
...last it is settled that the Seniors are to have a Class Day. The Corporation, taking the matter out of the hands of the Faculty as well as the Class itself, have put an end to petty disputes, and a programme (of a somewhat mongrel nature, to be sure) has been arranged. The morning is to be occupied with a single event, interesting only to those immediately concerned, - the breakfast given by Mr. Lowell to the graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair...
...that none but Yale and Princeton were left to struggle for the championship! There can be no doubt that the students will pray most earnestly that so sad a misfortune may not come upon us, and that, as most of us are deprived, without remedy, of seeing the mongrel* boat-race, our Nine may be persuaded not to increase the already too numerous side-shows at the Saratoga races...
...Mongrel, for neither University nor College can that race be called which is between mere combinations of colleges and scientific schools...
...very agreeable to receive pretty remarks from lady friends about the magenta; it is far from exhilarating to overhear afterwards their candid opinion of what they take to be magenta. But who can blame them for wishing to disguise their real sentiments on light solferino or a mongrel pink? It is amusing on Regatta days to observe the variety of shades donned by Harvard's friends. They range from a delicate pink to a crimson so dark as to be almost maroon. If some one of our sister colleges with a similar color - and there are such - should make...