Word: dudeness
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented by a goat, and he was allowed to choose between three fates-either to become a dude, to go to Harvard and be "culchawed," or to be burned upon the altar. At the mention of the first fate the goat trembled visibly and desired rather any other doom, and he preferred death to Harvard. Then the executioner fell upon him savagely with a heavy baton...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to acquaint the readers of your paper with a great calamity that has come upon this university, at present so devoted to study. Zion's Herald has left us in peace, Joseph Cooke has gone West on an exhibition tour as an "Eastern dude," while Gen. Butler has retired to the quiet of his study with a borrowed copy of a degree and the "trot" furnished by the Advertiser. But no sooner do these deadly foes of Harvard retire from the attack than an old foe re-appers on the scene - the "musical fiend...
Ille quem dudum dixeram is Plautus for "he whom I called a dude," and there is nothing new under the sun. [Record...
...next theme in English 5 is due May 4th. Subjects : 1. The Popularity of Dulness (in life and literature). 2. The Dude. 3. Thoughts in Homer and Thoughts in Shakespeare compared. 4. Matthew Arnold as a Critic. 5. Good Manners in Writing. 6. The Bigotry of Unbelief...