Word: brag
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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...Gosling's [the would-be 'popular man'] private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly drunk,' he will straightway get miserably drunk, and will brag about it for the rest of the year." If this had appeared in the Herald, no one would have been surprised, for it corresponds with the pictures of college life which appear from time to time in the public prints; but to find such a statement in a college paper...
...person in college corresponding to the imaginary "Gosling," - a phenomenon whose real existence one is inclined to question, - he will never become popular by pursuing the policy suggested by this social critic. The man who will make a fool of himself because "Swellington" does, and will then "brag about it for the rest of the year," cannot be familiar with the ways and means of social preferment...
...score of his admirers? For instance, it is Gosling's private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington has been "jolly drunk," he will straightway get miserably drunk and will brag about it for the rest of the year. Perhaps we can pity Swellington if he is fond of liquor; but we have only contempt for Gosling. If all our popular men would realize as fully as many of them do, the trust which their popularity confers upon them, there would...