Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...
...place for a class to appear in evening dress at nine o'clock in the morning on Class Day or any other day, as it would be for them to appear at a ball in reefers. The dress of the undergraduate upon occasions is a black gown and a college-cap, profanely called a "mortar-board." This costume was formerly worn here, and as we retain foolish customs because they are old, I should like to hear some logician explain the chain of reasoning which leads us to reject a custom both old and sensible...
...Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever since resided in the western portion of Long Island...
...black hosts for body - guard...
...Galaxy for February we find a good number. Noticeable in the contents is an essay on the minor French novelists by Henry James, and an article on that morbidly interesting subject, suicide. Serials by William Black and Miss Howells are continued; and among the wadding we notice a timely article opposing any reduction of the army in this country...