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Drugs at Exeter have spread to become part of someone's identity in the students' social hierarchy. For a while most students were considered to be divided into the "drug agg" (abr. for aggregation) or the "jock agg." Athletic ability, at a school where sports are required, and masculinity, at a school where most boys enter just before or after they reach puberty, are two psychological hangups that keep the jock cliques on top of the social hierarchy for the first two or three classes. The "drug agg" was a social reaction against the athletes. Drugs were their most salient...
...abr h po a o Harstone, lf 3 0 0 4 0 1 Kurtz, cf 1 1 0 1 0 0 Keyes, ss 1 1 0 2 6 0 Tully, 1b 4 0 0 10 1 1 Davis, rf, lf 4 0 2 1 0 1 Lovett, cf, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 Liverance, 2b 4 0 0 2 2 0 Regan, c 2 1 0 3 1 0 Scorgie, 3b 3 0 1 1 2 1 Cutler, rf* 1 0 0 0 Houghton, p 2 0 0 0 2 1 Gardella...
...quick to seize upon the rude rusticity of Lincoln features and figure.* During the Lincoln-Douglas debates every U. S. newspaper-reader came to recognize the beardless, bony railsplitter, shabbily clothed, big stick in hand, whacking at his rotund little antagonist. At this time the names "Honest Abe," "Old Abr'm" and "The Rail-Splitter" were popularly given Lincoln. These and others less affectionate stayed with him until his assassination...
...piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute "Abr...
...attend the Constitutional Convention thirty-one were college-bred, and five of the remainder had what might be called a liberal education, though they did not attend college. Of these Harvard furnished six - Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Francis Dana, Caleb Strong, John Pickering, and Benjamin West; Yale four - Abr. Baldwin, Jared Ingersoll, W. S. Johnson, and Wm. Livingston; Princeton nine - James Madison, Gunning Bedford, Jonathan Dayton, Oliver Ellsworth, Luther Martin, Alexander Martin, Wm. Patterson, W. C. Houston, and W. R. Davie; William and Mary five - John Edmund Randolph, George Wythe, James McClurg, and J. F. Mercer; Columbia (King...
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