Word: bites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word, let him not be "fresh." If his betters, the seniors, chose to go down in the mud and bite car tracks, that is an eminently respectable thing for them to do. They are not "fresh." They are only clinging to the last relics of a vanished childhood. But he, the freshman, with all the innocent freedom of a child in bib and tucker, has also all said child's ignorance of convention. This let him put in his pipe- if he can use one-and smoke, for we speak to him of the fullness of our heart or hearts...
...needed, when we have no policeman at all. It must be that those who have been wont to entice the muckers about their windows to race or wrestle for the proverbial "cent," forget in their present entertainment that they are but offering bait to fishes that never fail to bite, and that for but a few moments of possible amusement, they are bringing upon the college at large, days of inevitable annoyance; for one mucker, awarded a prize, is sure to become a mighty host within twenty-four hours. Let us hope, then, that, if we cannot have the much...
...bite the sod of Jarvis...
...interest to all who board at Memorial. Every one appreciates the advantage of ringing a bell in the hall in time for morning prayers. Why not ring a bell at exactly nine oclock? There are many men who run over to Memorial just in time to get a "bite" before a nine o'clock recitation, and it is a great nuisance to be obliged to spend half of their little time in looking at the clock, especially for a near-sighted man. It would be a great convenience, at but small expenditure of labor...
...Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the Ibis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a strong Tiger and very, very fierce...