Word: devil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Students may be divided into three general classes. First, those that regard the college and all that pertains to it as a great joke, to whom study is the varies stranger, and to whom time exists only to be killed, and the devil is usually at hand to help them kill it. Second are those who, while they appreciate the value of a college education, let a spirit of indolence or overweening interest in other matters draw them from their duties. The third class commonly known as 'digs,' are those who possess a stern sense of duty, or in whose...
...policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made a fool of herself, and that is all there is to it. All the camels that she has put down without a grimace have made her struggles and final revulsion from even as considerable a gnat as Governor Butler absolutely ridiculous...
...Louisville Lacrosse Club, not the "St. Louis" team, that the Harvard team thinks of challenging next spring. [Printer's Devil...
...Columbiad, just issued, has given universal satisfaction, and is considered the best publication of that nature ever issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
...Additional Curates' Society, the Epidemiological Society, the Mendicity Society and the Royal Female Naval School. Perhaps the suggestion in this last name for providing useful employment for the royal princesses might be well utilized. The artists have a club called the Mauls, and the lawyers are called the Devil's Own. A contemporary expresses the wish that the devil may get his own at the earliest convenient opportunity...