Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Amid the crowd's huge merriment...
...healthy vitality and social sympathy which these institutions at once expressed and encouraged. The case is very much the same with the exercises in question. Can any ceremony be more beautiful than a merry physical rivalry, such as that about the tree, in which success is the cause of merriment, and failure of still greater merriment? Is it not a most appropriate means of taking men out of themselves, and enlivening and strengthening the sympathy between those, now about to part, who have striven together for four years in friendly but earnest emulation...
...tenor solo "Spirito Gentil" was encored, and the performers are confident that the piano duet would have been also, if the piano had had a little more "grand" about it. The "college songs" (?) with which the concert concluded were better done than usual, and made the customary hit. Some merriment was excited by the well-meant but futile attempts of one gentleman to remember the words of "Nelly was a Lady...
...grand cathedral of time the organ, at the touch of providence, does not play joyous melodies continually; but for every peal of merriment at the birth of a soul, there must be a requiem at its exit from earth...
...with his garlands of myrtle, adds to our merriment's zest...