Word: bits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...text-books has been, certain fundamental truths have dawned upon minds which otherwise would have lacked their light. Little is gained from the recitations which the men have to attend if they fail to pass the original examination, while, as our contributor says, "dawdling over the book, bit by bit, for six or seven weeks, is a trial sufficient to cool the ardor of the most enthusiastic scholar." He proposes therefore that an examination, like the one formerly held for those who wanted to anticipate the study, should be put down for some time in the Sophomore year, and that...
...taught'st the taming bit to fling...
...master of the shop said unto him, "Hast thou wherewith to pay for that which thou eatest?" And Square answered and said, "Yea, verily, have I this piece of gold." And the master of the shop took the piece of gold, and looked upon it, and bit it with his teeth, and said, "This is not gold, but the semblance thereof. Therefore give unto me gold, or I will call upon the guards, and they shall give thee over to the ruler of the land." And Square said, "Gold have I none, but do thou take this garment in payment...
...without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor to improve us by kindly pointing out our faults. So, also, if we find our Connecticut cousins rather unnecessarily patriotic, imbued somewhat deeply with the esprit du corps, or the least bit in the world too frank in expressing their opinions, let us merely say, "Their manners, you know, are so delightfully natural!" In conclusion, however, we really must remind our excellent friends - however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions...
HERE is a bit of advice given by one Freshman to another: "Jacques, if you keep on quarrelling with everybody who loves your wife, you will soon have no friends...