Word: posteriori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despite this a posteriori testimonial of what youthful fervor can do, it is doubtful that a move to organize rallies for the varsity football team would meet with unbounded enthusiasm. Among the upperclassmen at Harvard there has for years existed an aversion toward those organized orgies which from a prelude to major athletic events in many an American institution of learning. The bonfire, the snake dance, and the night shirt parade are no doubt wholesome fun, but they are burdens which the scholastic atmosphere of Cambridge has long been spared. A terse crystallization of the local attitude toward such childish...