Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...culmination about noon, when a procession, accompanied by much drumbeating and blare of trumpets, passed by the windows of Massachusetts, within which sat imprisoned a lot of helpless mortals busily intent upon the passing of examinations, but who found all the noise and jollification without hardly compatible with their sober thoughts. This procession finally made its way to Sanders Theatre, where, by permission of the college authorities, the literary exercises of the day were held. Here a large crowd, including a considerable number of students, had assembled, who listened with interest to the oration, addresses, music, etc., which made...
...public civil meetings, or concourse of people, as courts of justice, elections, fairs, or at military exercise, in the time or hours of the college exercise, public or private. Neither shall any scholar exercise himself in any military band, unless of known gravity, and of approved sober and virtuous conversation, and that with the leave of the president and his tutor...
Harvard, Yale and Columbia have had a good laugh all round at the impudence and deluded vanity, as they regard it, of these little Pennsylvania fellows who presumed to challenge them so boastfully. It was funny-funny enough to convulse more sober people even than the college crews are composed of. But now that the laugh is over, is it not about time for Harvard, Yale and Columbia to beat Pennsylvania and so establish their right to laugh? It might turn out to be the old story of the jovial Pat who was glad he had his laugh before...
...winged horse has long been a familiar object among the host of college exchanges. For many volumes this hardy pioneer was alone in this untried field, nor did it seem as if any other college would dare follow his lead. The papers continued to come out in their sober coats of black and white. A simple heading of large type, in most cases, followed by an unattractive and disorderly column of hatters' and clothiers' advertisements formed the sole ornament of the front page. Now much of this is changed and we have a new order of things. Decorated covers...
...colors. The Princeton Tiger, the Yale Courant, and Michigan Argonaut were not long in following suit. But it has remained for this year to see the greatest number added to the list. The Yale Record, then the Cornell Era, Michigan Chronicle and even the staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They may well be proud, for their appearance is much improved and a certain individuality now attaches to each paper where before they were but one from a throng of plain, scarcely distinguishable exchanges. Meanwhile the Lampoon...