Word: fun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit hardly compatible with the principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought not to make fun of it but defend it, and bear in mind the words of Mr. Bacon, 'Harvard, may she always be right, but Harvard, right or wrong.' " This savors too much of the "win at any cost" spirit, and does not give any good reason why we should not criticize the recent...
...plea for the maintainance of Bloody Monday Night as a college custom is hardly so successful as the preceding editorials. The half way defence of "punches" is out of place in the editorial columns of the Advocate. That the rushes do no harm, indeed that they are rather good fun, is admitted but it is not probable that even this part of Bloody Monday Night will long exist in a place where all the tendencies of thought and action are as maturing as they are here at Harvard. It is rather a difficult matter to incite much class enthusiasm among...
...concert has been given by the Pierian Sodality excepting the fall concert in the Sanders Theatre. The men at present do not care to spend one or two evenings a week in practicing for the spring concert as they say it is "all work and no fun...
...unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...
...parade will be little more than a farce. No one should let political or partisan motives hinder him from joining in the procession. The purely political sentinent of the college will best be shown by the canvass; the parade itself is entirely a matter of personal enjoyment and fun. As the four different classes have voted to take part in the parade, let every one be ruled by the majority and make the Harvard procession the success it ought...