Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rivalling his great exemplar, he became a dig. He refused to countenance any such Freshman immoralities as beer and cigarettes; he would not even eat peanuts in Latin recitations. He never cut prayers, or said, "Not prepared." But yet, in spite of his noble character and many excellences, no handsome and popular upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till...