Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Lit. is very pleasant reading, after its rampant fellow-collegian. One of its poems, a little song called "Only," is pretty, and all the prose articles are good and well done. The best of them seems to us to be the one on that perennial question "What do we come here for?" entitled "An 'Immortal's' Experience...
...hear sad news from Princeton. The schoolboy spirit seems to be rampant, and the time honored quarrels between Freshmen and Sophomores, which were stopped for a time, have been renewed with real Princetonian ferocity. On the evening of the 18th a number of Freshmen entered a Sophomore's room, and after tying the inmates to their chairs, shaved their heads, and then beat an orderly retreat. They were pursued by the irate Sophomores, when released by their friends, and a combat ensued. Pistol-shots were exchanged, and one of the Sophomores was wounded in the thigh. Dr. McCosh...
...society men, to be sure, would have no voice in the nominations, but in the elections their votes would be as powerful as any; and if they cast a solid vote they would make so formidable an opposition that the nominating bodies would have to regard their opinion. Rampant democrats may cry out that this is unfair, but they should remember that the societies differ widely in their scope, and that any student whose mind and whose manners fit him for admission to any one of them can obtain it by the exercise of a little tact...