Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gives them dead away...
...flowers are dead, the Spring hath gone...
What we call a flunk or a dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...
...year's dead...
...Harvard Man feels dead sure that he is in love with every pretty girl he meets. He is equally certain that she is hopelessly in love with...