Word: cough
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they finish, Fr. Benedict, the priest of the band, enters with his usual chronic cough, which can only be appeased by a finger or so of rum and no water. He is noted for his power as a singer, and he favors the pirates with the song of the Rover...
...place to take up again at the beginning of another year the old complaint of behavior of students in the class room. In Geology IV, when the steropticon is used, and the room consequently darkened, an excellent chance is given to the children in the course to cough, chuckle, stamp and whistle, and this chance was used to good advantage in the last lecture, to the discomfort of the instructor and others. As this course is opened to the entire college, it is unquestionable that the disturbance is caused chiefly by freshmen. Upper class men have come to learn that...