Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...jugs stamped with the college crest," would bring the user within the scope of this Act of Parliament. Verily, a free country is America; where people can put on or take off armorial bearings, as they would that particular bearing which goes in student circles by the name of "dog." The debates in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions are sometimes most interesting, as affording indications of the tenor of thought prevailing among the more educated classes of the younger part of the nation. Thus, in Oxford, the motion that "this house sympathizes with the insurrection in Herzegovina" was carried...
...dog will not appear...
...sporting Senior who had a public for keeping a dog in the Yard because he put his stuffed raccoon in his window had the "dead wood...
Character. - Decidedly aggressive. General who-yer-look'n'-at air. Strong sense of freedom and equality of all American citizens, - negroes and social inferiors excepted. Fondness for sporting, especially billiards and dog-fancying. Always ready to bet, - particularly if in possession of facts not known to general public. Astonishing stomachic capacity - especially for liquors. Unequalled powers of invective. Conversation replete with humorous anecdote, in some respects resembling that of Class I. Has frequently conceived aversion from cold water. Seldom congenial to persons of other classes. Not to be trusted...
...still too young to have had much influence, but we hope that its results will soon be seen in the improved carriage and manly bearing of the students, who are now, it must be confessed, for the most part either "slouchy" and round-shouldered, or else conspicuous for their "dog." The position of the soldier is seldom considered of much importance by the young recruit, who is all anxiety to get a musket and parade about the streets to the admiration of the fairer sex and of the throngs of little ragamuffins who follow his march. Judging from the various...