Word: wild
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...allowed to have the cake with plums, and imposed a penalty for the violation of this law of twenty shillings fine and the confiscation of the cakes. The account says that "the anniversary of commencement had become a sort of saturnalia for the whole neighborhood, and the wild revels of the students were so prolonged that it was necessary to put policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- After seeing a great game like Saturdays-wild enthusiasm, frantic cheering, the great rush at the end, and all the other stirring incidents of the scene-it is most dampening to read the meagre and cold-blooded accounts of it in all the papers. I notice that the CRIMSON even reduces the first individual feat in the game, Boyden's run, to this: "Harvard's down; ball passed back to Boyden," etc. Won't you correct this and put in print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field...
...able and most influential men are chosen for the societies, the remaining fourth are without influence in college, and the societies meet with no opposition. Contrary to expectation, the strongest influences toward morality and industry are exerted by these societies-lazy men are made to work for honors, and wild fellows made to be-have. Society spirit causes just enough rivalry to that extravagant estimate of classmates and class interests, which is produced by class spirit; while this on the other hand prevents the clannishness and narrowness peculiar to society life. The result is a spirit which causes...
...Dure-souled song of a wild brown thrush...
...offensive cigarette and sicken upon the masculine bulldog. Let him not drink too much lemonade, nor think a remorse should be worn conspicuously. Let him not drag about a stick he can't carry for two consecutive minutes. Let him not play the drum at midnight, nor boast of wild feats he never attempted, nor attempt wild feats he can never perform. Little boys should be seen and not heard, and not seen too much either...