Word: catarrhs
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...catch a bad catarrh...
Freshmen may attend Chapel; or, if they prefer, may obtain certificates that they are afflicted with violent catarrh. These certificates may be had of any corrupt physician for five dollars...
...Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...
...especially disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims of catarrh and general indisposition, who are unable to attend. Why should all of us be awakened at the same moment? John Stuart Mill says that uniformity is a bad thing. This prayer-bell must be given up; it crushes out all individuality, and is a barbarous relic of the past...
...Great decrease of catarrh and asthma," replied the Bulletin Board...