Word: roystering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these Harvard clubs are comparable to nothing. Not in New Haven, for example, could occur a royster such as that staged at the Hoosic-Whisick Club by the Dolphins, and order so secret, we are told, that the very members themselves do not know the members names. Out of pure gratitude be it said that all Yale was there in a body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian...
...English playwright and poet, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON representative. "Such organizations as the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and your 47 Workshop here, put on plays which hardly any manager would undertake to promote. Just before I left home they were preparing at Oxford to play 'Ralph Royster Doyster,' and Marlowe's 'Edward the Second...