Word: staid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow the bars of propriety will be lowered, staid looks, flowing gowns and flashing buttons laid aside, and the Senior class, filled with a wild abandon, their loins girt up with overalls, will go forth to picnic. For four years the main endeavor of each man has been the acquisition of knowledge. Tomorrow the chief pursuit will be pleasure. For four years the class has gathered for its smokers and dinners. Tomorrow it will gather for the last occasion of merriment, the last festival and carnival of jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally...
Arrived at its destination staid 1916 will indulge in baseball games, a greased pig contest, a lively 100-pound porker having been specially donated for the occasion, and various other forms of amusement. The return trip will start...
...clock tomorrow night, in a certain remote, dark, dank and inaccessible portion of Cambridge, commonly known as the Baseball Cage on Soldiers Field, certain heretofore staid, upright persons, the Class of 1916, will gather for a Junket. The Regimental Band, that aggregation of the world's most unusual musicians, will lead the way thither from the cliff-dwellings in the Yard, and will furnish sweet music while the erstwhile students disport themselves, seeking amusement in one of the many ways which will be provided for them. No less than two (2) Ethiopian Blackamoors will offer their carborundum...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough to members of this staid old College where Rinehart nights are the chief vulgar amusement. But even at Princeton, customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer...