Word: childishly
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...place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn over a new leaf and expend some of their pocket money for a book on "table etiquette." It is high time that such childish actions were abolished, and that a realization of their position be forced upon them...
...sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings by the extreme promptness and order in which they formed in line...
...possible by a close study of our own needs, and by consulting those who thoroughly know what our peculiar needs and conditions are. We should steer clear of all petty influences, such as the consideration that our friends are going to take such and such courses, or the more childish one that such a course will demand little work from us, and make our choice of electives for the coming year like rational men who have some high aim in life...
...branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading, writing and geography" are the first things a boy is taught in school, he naturally gets to consider them as elementary and childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight...
...audience at the Historical lecture Wednesday evening, was much annoyed by the disturbance and childish pranks of a crowd of Cambridge youths who attended. The ill timed applause and boisterous demonstrations were extremely discourteous to the speaker, and we are surprised that the makers of the disturbances were admitted to the lecture. We sincerely hope that the nuisance of the Cambridge youth may be avoided in future...