Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned and extinguished, when the freshman grasped a chair and the sophomores were compelled to beat a hasty and disastrous retreat. The next morning the freshman was called before the president...
...want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems to us is gradually spreading in our colleges. It certainly is beginning to be held at Harvard, and Yale no doubt will be forced to accept it sooner or later...
...London affair was certainly a most unfortunate conglomeration. The death of Mr. Benjamin was a blow which struck deep into the hearts of all Columbia students, for Benjamin was loved by all, and was a living example of that old saying, that the richest jewels are found in the smallest packages...
Students at the University of Virginia are wont to visit the grave of Jefferson and pledge in burning draughts of mountain whiskey the memory of that departed patriot. The removal of his remains would be a blow to the educational interests of the State...
Resolved, That it is the fixed opinion and firm conviction of the senior class of Columbia College that the co-education of the sexes is undesirable from an educational as well as from a social and a moral standpoint, and that its introduction here would be a fatal blow to the future welfare and prosperity of the institution...