Word: saturnalia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passed a law that the students be not allowed to have the cake with plums, and imposed a penalty for the violation of this law of twenty shillings fine and the confiscation of the cakes. The account says that "the anniversary of commencement had become a sort of saturnalia for the whole neighborhood, and the wild revels of the students were so prolonged that it was necessary to put policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities...
...college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess...
...blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed be forgotten for many a year,- by the proctors, at least...
...previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...