Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the past College year we have done all that lay in our power to stir up a right spirit of enthusiasm among the students, and when such a spirit did begin to make its appearance we strove to encourage it in these columns. This has been our attitude from the first, and it is our attitude today. We should be unwilling to do anything to lessen the true, right sort of enthusiasm, which inspires in every student's heart a warmer affection for Harvard. But students must be careful at the start, when the new spirit of enthusiasm...
...will not go into details, but every man must feel what we mean in saying this, and realize that it is true. Good rousing cheering and marching in the Yard with the band is a right way of celebrating, but the firing of giant crackers and every description of firearms in the streets of the city is distinctly a wrong way. The use of arms and firecrackers in celebrating is an entirely new thing at college. Even in the old days, when no one ever complained that there was not enthusiasm enough at Harvard, these things were not used. Besides...
...younger members of the Faculty, and one of these men said last night that such extreme and reckless celebrations would have the effect of completely silencing them when the subject was next brought up in a Faculty meeting. This is the situation, and we must face it in a right and sensible way. Unless firearms and firecrackers are given up in celebrating the games that are to come, we shall probably lose our intercollegiate contests, both baseball and football, in the near future...
...complained that it is now being abused by some of the members of the Mott Haven Team. Whether or not the complaint is justified we do not say, but we again wish to urge members of the team to observe the regulations closely. The only men who have the right to wear the hat band are those who won a point in the games with Pennsylvania or in the Mott Haven games in New York...
...Toledo, Ohio, who rooms at 28 Felton Hall, was accidentally shot. He had been with friends in Felton 25, but just before the accident occurred the occupants of the room had left. He was handling a revolver when it exploded and the bullet entered the right side of his breast. He was at once removed to the Cambridge Hospital. The wound is serious but not fatal...