Word: rowdyisms
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...pleased to know in what manner Harvard students, for instance, have been guilty of any lawlessness during, say, the last five or six months. Harvard students have never enjoyed a better reputation than at the present time, and so far this year have been free from any of that rowdyism which, we are sorry to admit, has characterized the actions of some in previous years. The Post man goes on to say that students in colleges have left behind them that careful surveillance which as boys curbed their restlessness and "bumptiousness." "Bumptiousness" is a good word, and we feel sorry...
...discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon the quiet village people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When the villagers presumed to protest and grumble, punishment fell upon them. The midnight rowdyism of the collegians was suffered in silence, howsoever many terrors attached, but the outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really...
...following, from the Rochester Democrat, was called forth by the recent acts of the Princeton freshmen: "These freaks of rowdyism in college undergraduates have been witnessed for centuries and looked upon as almost inexplicable by the older portion of humanity, even by those who once participated in them. Taken individually and in broad daylight, a stripling who attends college seems harmless enough. Look at this slight young man in his room, bending lazily or earnestly over his books as the case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling...
...oranges and overgrown sunflowers, being substituted for bouquets and applause. The New Haven Register trusts, for the honor of Yale and the credit of the university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness.' As for Princeton, we will say nothing; but, as between Harvard and Yale, on a question of rowdyism, Yale will take the cake. The Harvard boys have a great spirit of fun, but nowadays it is oftenest vented in bits of revelry that harm no one, but which...
...Yale," says the New Haven Register, "should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness." That would be an excellent thing for Yale, no doubt, but the boys are likely to make a good fight for that "palm" yet. - [Herald...