Word: cow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...
...come. This is known to be true, because the inevitable small brother of your chum's sister's pretty friend has already begun to spring that inane and venerable question of "Why is it dangerous to walk out of doors now?" which he immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave by her enticing suggestions...
...Texan who has lived for years among the cow boys says that many of them are graduates of Eastern colleges. No one who has ever lived in a college town will wonder after this at the stories which come to us by telegraph of the artistic genius of the cow boys in painting western settlements...
About seven o'clock Saturday evening the freshmen began to assemble in great numbers in and around the quadrangle to celebrate their tug-of-war victory. The overture of the improvised orchestra, composed of fishhorns, policeman's rattles, cow bells, etc., lasted for a half hour or more. After they could shout no longer by reason of hoarseness and loss of wind caused by the blowing of their infernal horns, the freshmen began to raid grocers' back-yards for fuel for a bonfire. A hugh pile was soon collected in front of University, and quickly kindled. As soon, however...
...which is rather hard on the pantry stock of the institution. The spoons. I noticed. when I took lunch at the college yesterday afternoon, were stamped deeply "Vassar Female College." I saw several youths take two or three spoons; and one Princeton man, under the encouraging smile of his "cow," slipped spoon after spoon to the inside pocket of his coat. Quite an extensive barter trade is carried on between West Point and Poughkeepsie-spoons for bell buttons. I could not resist, and took one myself...