Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are certain complaints regarding long standing grievances which cause a smile every time they are read in the CRIMSON. They are so well worn and old that we have been even accused of inserting them regularly whenever there was a lack of fresh ideas to supply the mighty engines of our brains. This is a hopeful sign. It indicates that old Harvard is such a perfect college that there exist only two or three imperfections to make its perfections felt...
...over the long history of Harvard College and its generations of men, that slowly, mysteriously, but at last very clearly there shapes itself as we look, as the great outcome of the whole, a majestic being which we call the college, with human features and capacities, with eyes to smile or frown on us, with a heart to love us, with a will to rule us and to fix standards for our life...
...anniversary celebration would be suspended from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, has been greeted with general satisfaction by the students. The constant and hard worker will sigh a mighty sigh of relief when his eyes light on these lines, and the constitutional fainant will smile with lurid joy at finding the period of his loafing so largely extended. He will even tell you that the vacation ought to last until Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial spirit of indifference, which by some calumniators is said to prevade...
...reader who has remembrances of Cambridge running back to 1836 - the year that Harvard celebrated her two hundredth anniversary - will recall with a smile the fanciful summer garment of the students then in vogue, called the College Toga. For at least two seasons it was in high fashion with the undergraduates. It was made of gingham, of a color and pattern to suit the taste of the wearer. It was a loose-fitting garment reaching to the knees, was gathered at the neck, and also at the waist, behind. It had a turned-over collar, a small cape rounded...
...indeed trace the origin of "Yale enthusiasm" which shows itself in bullying smaller colleges and in ungentlemanly annoyance. No one objects to this self-complacent near-sightedness of Yale except perhaps some of her progressive alumni. Certainly Harvard men should not, for they are in a position to smile at her boastful pretentions...