Word: adept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dignified bearing. Harvard man through and through as he is, he would lack symmetry if not developed also on the athletic side. Bowdoin students will find in him, should he become their president, an enthusiastic sympathiser in their sports, for he is a good base ball player and an adept in the manly art of self defence. It may be remarked in passing that it is a little singular that Mr. Hyde should be the second man in his Andover class of '82 to be called to a college presidency...
...Smithfield Centre, at much expense of time and money, to see how you are faring in this godless sink of iniquity denominated Harvard College. Strange rumors have reached Smithfield that you have been seen entering Satan's antechamber, in vulgar parlance called the Globe Theatre; that you are an adept in gambling; that your room is adorned with the painted Jezebels of the stage. Nephew Nathaniel, the jaws of hell are opening wide to receive you; already its sulphurous breath has tainted you, and the arch-fiend is about to claim you for his own. Conduct me to your room...