Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...effectiveness presenting a marked contrast to the earlier efforts of the year. The conviviality was kept up to a late hour, and with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" ended one of the never-to-be-forgotten events of our college course. It is with pleasure that we record the fact that the company dispersed quietly and in good order, without any of those riotous proceedings which commonly mar the "finale" of such occasions...
...descent, has never 'squalled' since it came into being, or showed any traces of infant depravity in attempting to scratch its big brother, has already gotten its legs and become playful. It has begun to poke sticks through the fence at its neighbors and natural playmates, the Courant and Record. Sweet infant prodigy, we warn you that it is not yet near enough to the millennium to make it at all safe for children, weaned or unweaned, to pursue their little games near the domicile of the asp." - Yale...
...learn from the Record that a member of '75, at Harvard, has favored that journal with a communication containing information with reference to the ball and boating interests, and the relation of '75 to each of the college papers. This aspirant for the favors of the Record is treated rather gingerly by that paper. In the first place, the editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them...
...belligerent friends at Yale. Besides the remorseful pangs which vice ever experiences in the presence of virtue, it must be extremely aggravating to find in all the exchanges, as they straggle in, after a notice of the Magenta, some such remark as "Yale papers please copy"; or, "Courant and Record, here is an example which you will do well to follow." The Courant is especially vexed, and proposes to wait with Christian calmness for the hair-pulling which cannot be avoided after our second number. It also takes occasion to express the withering contempt with which the Courant, from...
Little Yale Record thinks our existence was rumored as a probable event in the issue of the Advocate next preceding our first number. It hints also its belief - which is a very natural one, and therefore excusable - that our paper is the offspring of a pique on the part of the Sophomores toward the Advocate...