Word: rumpus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...granting too much license even to students in an excited state and not easily controlled. It may be possible that the affair, as stated in the daily papers, is greatly exaggerated, as is apt to be the case. This was so with regard to the Phi Beta Kappa rumpus. which happened in Boston several years ago, and which in reality was only a harmless affair. We heartily hope that such is the case and that the Pennsylvanian students have not lowered the credit of their Alma Mater by any such display of boyishness and thoughtlessness. If it is true...