Word: outing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outing Club does not expect any tuxedo-clad contestants, like last year, when the group stages the 1951 Wellesley bike race on Sunday...
Custine reports that when a squall hit a flotilla of small craft carrying "chosen bourgeoisie" on an outing to Czar Nicholas I's seaside palace, scores were drowned. The newspapers suppressed the disaster, so as not to "distress the Czarina [or] imply blame to the Czar." By a similar procedure, when a serving girl was murdered in a back street, the police did not bother to report the crime, but were careful to make a few rubles by selling her body to medical students for dissection...
Scattered groups of Yalies, remained inconsolable yesterday over the ban on Derby Day, but most of the Elis were brightened by the announcement of an alternate site for the annual spring outing...
...local newscaster took a swipe at the outing and the revellers, suggesting that instead of water pistols (a traditional Derby Day feature), the students should be given rifles to "join the kids out there in Korea who never had a chance to learn all the things they teach in college...
Many Yalies question whether the new location will change the character of the outing. "It will be the same old debauch in a new place," one stated last night...