Word: flippant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - One of the items in your issue of yesterday seems to refer to my former communication to you. Excuse me if I say that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen...
Boston Theatre. - "Streets of New York." Although at times Mr. Boniface seems perhaps a little too flippant in manner in face of his many accidents throughout the action of the play, his acting is on the whole a good piece of work; especially may be noted his sudden change, from laughing carelessness to that of frightened horror at the death of the old sea captain in the prologue. There is a lapse of twenty years between the prologue and first act, and it seems strange that all the other characters but Tom Badger, Mr. Boniface, should grow old; but this...
...another subject by making against the managers of our crew the serious charge that they have acted discourteously or unfairly in not replying promptly to Yale's challenge. Not only are the charges ungentlemanly and wholly without foundation, but they are made in the News' most rabid and flippant style...
...requesting the extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday until Monday, was entirely neglected by the faculty. The editorial was, no doubt, generated by the proper spirit, but when we know the true facts of the case we shall see that it has not the slightest ground for its flippant sarcasm. We learn from the best authority that a petition was found by the dean on his table, signed by several hundred names of students in different departments of the university whose affairs are not governed or regulated by the college faculty at all. This petition was not addressed...
...very seriously discussed. If but this last great consummation be reached, towards what higher point can our athletics strive? Musical, foot-ball and literary sculling! What will follow, if, as the Crimson suggests, the Christian Brethren and St. Paul's could be induced to match muscle! But banish such flippant counsel...