Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole trouble seems to come from disregarding the circumstances. A hot room, a dry review on a day near the end of the trying mid-year examination period, two hundred Freshmen,--and the outburst is easily explained. True, the public cannot know these facts, but the writer of your communication could if he would. And the question of Harvard and the Press has been discussed at length; it is not germane to the present question, viz that of placing a false construction on the somewhat thoughtless and wholly non-signifying, as far as their opinions are concerned, outbreaks of noise...