Word: boorishness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people, undertook to deprive the governor of the people, duly elected, of what every other governor had had [cries of "Shame," "Shame,"] and when they did that they thought they probably could so incense the governor, so far strike at his self love, so far stir up his boorish feelings, that when he was called upon to do the duty to the college in his place as governor, that he would be as boorish as they. [Laughter and applause.] That he would know no more of the proprieties of life than they did. The governor of the Commonwealth appeared...
...between Heilbron and Turner, was one of the most exciting of the meeting. Both men sparred cautiously, although hard hitting was indulged in toward the end. To many Turner appeared to have the best of it, though the judges decided in favor of Heilbron; upon which a number of boorish Freshmen proceeded to display their ill breeding by hissing the judges' decision, an insult we have never before seen at Harvard, and hope never to see repeated. The two-hand vault followed, and brought out seven men; the bar was started at 5 feet 2 in. T. C. Batchelder...