Word: buds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class crew desired to use the float when there was danger of its being carried off by the ice, a bond sufficient to cover all damages could be left with the Bursar. It is a pity that such commendable energy in rowing matters should be nipped in the bud, and at a time, too, when the college needs plenty of good material from which to select the regular 'Varsity crew...
...somewhat. The wooden spoon was given alone-not as hitherto to the man whose gastronomic powers were best developed-but to the most popular man in the class. The wooden spoon exhibition itself was always elaborately gotten up. The curtain rose upon eight young men standing around an enormous bud, which leaved out, and the one who was to receive the spoon stepped from the group and delivered a salutatory half in bad Latin and half in worse English. In the course of this opening speech the orator addressed the classes individually, but in this year of '65 he launched...
...attempt was made by the undergraduates of Vassar to introduce the wearing of the cap and gown. The faculty, however, nipped the scheme in the bud...
There has been much discussion of the possibility and advisability of a University Club. And against it have been urged such arguments as that the Harvard indifference would nip the club in the bud, and that there was no sufficiently widespread motives to bring students within its hallowed precincts...
...pleasure. In putting the shot and throwing the ham mer, in the broad jump, in the 100 yards, and in hurdle, the wearers of the blue and white will probably render a good account of themselves, but parental fears will probably nip their all-around championship aspirations in the bud. The parents of Brooks and Hamilton regard athletic training as just a trifle less dangerous than working a battery on Cemetery Hill, and the blue and white brigade will therefore, in all probability, be minus Brooks and Hamilton's valuable services. - Sportsman...