Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1914-1914
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...order of seniority, each accupying one week. Inasmuch as these devotional exercises were frequently performed in an indifferent and perfunctory manner by those who had little or no interest in them they were far from edifying, and often distasteful to the students. Being obliged to rise before daylight, to go through the winter's storms and stand shivering in a cold room, listening to what seemed to be mere routine, even in the opinion of those who conducted it, and then going to recitations before they had breakfasted, it is not surprising that a spirit of discontent was created which...
...things that could happen in the open daylight of that Harvard square! Perhaps Dickey initiations took the edge off the strangeness of these events. Anyhow, reference has been made to fairy tales,--and this play may be allowed even greater license. Was it not a farce