Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...fill it up with items concerning the health of Queen Victoria, etc., etc. Now if, instead of grumbling, some of our censors in the outside college world would, when they hear that Hammersmith will not row this year, or that Albermarle is trying for the junior crew, only drop a slip, stating the fact, in our box at Leavitt's, there would be many less complaints. As it is now, there are many items of interest which we are unable to secure, and which, if sent to us, we would gladly publish; but just as the great dailies rely considerably...
...even in our own, we never speak in any of them, but express our ripest ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy...
...committee of five, appointed by the Princeton faculty, has reported in favor of vigorous measures to abolish hazing. It was decided to expel all ringleaders, and to suspend and drop, for a year, all others found guilty...
...Came in on a strain of music from Lyceum Hall," said the Ibis, for it was he. "Rather a strain-ge way to drop in," he continued, "but then, it isn't as though I was a stranger...