Word: childishly
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...CRIMSON urges undergraduates, as a matter of duty to support athletic teams--or for that matter to go to a lecture in the Union. Whereas, were it entirely desirable that a strict laissez-faire attitude should prevail at Harvard such misplaced emphasis and such expectations would be at once childish and in poor taste...
...attacking will be unscrupulous enough to take a "mere oath" and subsequently violate it. Furthermore any propaganda sufficiently biting to make an impression on the student mind would not be long in reaching the ears of the proper authority to deal with such individual cases. Finally, these betrayers of childish confidence exist for the most part only is the minds of our "anti-red" alarmists...
...they are somewhat narrow-minded in their point of view. For while they praise, as high art, the accidental killing of the hero at the end of a book that seems bound to turn out happily, they condemn the fortuitous death of a villain as catering to a childish wish of the public...
Gasp as we may at the childish recklessness of the girl, Miss Hartley never allows us to lose sympathy with her, Willful, selfish, materialistic, yet essentially honest and good at heart. Anne is a constant delight one of those airy creatures that make us rejoice in the eternal unreasonableness of the other...
...received by our delegates was a speech made by an officer of the national Student Volunteer organization in which he led our men to believe that the conference would be much broader than it really was. It is time that our delegates clear themselves of blame by dropping their childish pretence and admitting collectively, as most of them do individually, that the conference was a disappointment and must not be repeated unless its true purposes are made perfectly clear. --The Tech...