Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...connection with the recent semiannual examinations, there has been considerable condemnation of the system of proctors as adopted at Harvard. We have noticed in one collegiate publication a matter-of-course reference to the Harvard "cheat-if-you-can system," coupled with the statement that "If the Harvard system of spying is adopted, students will cheat if they think there is a possibility, and it would take one instructor to every student to keep them from it." We refer to this because it is expressive of a very erroneous, yet very common, conception of the Harvard system. This system...
...also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador, or Chiaus. That the English learned some of their seamanship from the Italians is plain from the word mizzenmast (la mezzana), and the order avast! from basta...
...force. There is a startling vividness and originality of touch in the descriptions of the death-bed conversation of a woman "who deserted husband and child to follow a lover," and who acknowledged that it was almost divine to sin as she did, "not with a mean desire to cheat the devil or God, but freely anxious to have what she sinned for and not to repine." Certainly the theme is one which we seldom see elaborated...