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...have your fun and we understand very well why, on such occasions, you want to have a good time. Now all we ask of you, is to have your good time as much as possible to yourselves; build your bonfires at a safe distance from the buildings; do no wanton destruction to property and, above all else, in consideration of the rights of the citizens, get through early. Let there be no noise after midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATION. | 5/22/1884 | See Source »

...Life, and the central figure, which shows a trace of originality does not strike us as having any connection with the paper. On the title page we find the motto of the paper "Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee jest and youthful jollity, quips and cranks and wanton wiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE QUIP. | 4/24/1884 | See Source »

...Class Day Committee ask the students to assist them in protecting lanterns from being stolen Class Day evening. The wanton destruction and heavy loss of lanterns in previous years has become so notorious that the Committee had difficulty in locating the contract for the illumination. To those who desire a lantern as a souvenir, lanterns will be sold at cost if they will leave their names with the Committee. It should be borne in mind that this is a matter upon which the success of future Class Days depends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANTERNS ON CLASS DAY. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest," the &OEstrus has also appeared in new attire. It is now a good-looking paper of nine columns; a size which prevents the publication of those prize essays and orations which appear to be so plentiful at the University of California. We notice, too, a more important change in the tone of the items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...apology to the Courant. Next time it appears to make a blunder, we shall understand that it is "roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

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