Word: calathump
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History of another kind was also written in blood on the night of November 12, 1840. In one of the quaint alcoholic college traditions known as the "Calathump," students customarily gave vent to their opinions of instructors whose "walk and conversation" were unpalatable. One Professor J. A. G. Davis, chairman of the faculty and apparently rather unloved, was instantly shot by a marauding masked student whom he sought to identify. The "calathump" institution along with the "dyke," a lynch-party directed at students overly "addicted to calico" or Southern Womanhood, fell into gradual disuse in 1856. Ancestral example, however...
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