Word: brummels
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...there is one thing that has exercised the ingenuity of the Registrar and the Steward, it must be the assignment of college rooms. All the plans that have been tried and have failed could not, for obvious reasons, be described here; but now their number, like Brummel's neckties, must be increased by one more "failure." The various systems that have been followed at different times have many supporters, and it is strange to notice that a student's estimation of them changes as regularly as he passes from a lower class in college to a higher. The favorite plan...