Word: pest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purposes. The objections to this plan are many; the Board of Directors of Memorial have stated the more important ones Apparently, then, the table d' hote-a la carte system will not satisfy the great masses of men who are seeking a second Memorial Hall and one without the pest...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate in defending the policy of the paper under the new management says that its purpose will be "to combat, not foster the growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed...