Word: blush
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those who played the trick than to see students and instructors gravely discussing the moral aspects of an affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless...
...Born to Blush Unseen," A Father of Five...