Word: wail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual wail of a desperate crew management is again put in print before a Freshman class. It is a peculiar phenomenon that year after year when the time for departure to New London approaches, a large per cent. of first year men are found to have been wanting in class loyalty to such an extent that they have considered themselves unable to support their crew. In the tardy, most men are out riding, rowing, or playing tennis till very late in the afternoon, and do not return from dinner in time for a 7 o'clock concert...
...same appeals from different committees and officers of the Senior class. The Secretary complains that men are slow and thoughtless about sending in the answered questions for their "Class Lives," the Class Committee, that the Class Fund is not receiving sufficient support, and the Photographic Committee has its annual wail about the Portfolio, and how men must keep their appointments...
Complaints against freshman classes are always plentifullenough, but ninety-seven seems to hold the record both in the number of things to which it is indifferent and in the strength of its indifference. It has been the CRIMSON'S unfortunate fate to send up wail after wail over the manner in which the freshmen support their teams. First it was football; then the crew was ill-supported; now the baseball team is having trouble. Last week all candidates for the positions of pitcher and catcher were asked to meet in the gymnasium at 3.30 in the afternoon of a certain...
...Wail from Below" is a somewhat bizarre short sketch of a being who seems somewhat troubled in his upper story...