Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting to hear some acute observer of society assure you that his classmate Fawn is a toady, that he does everything for policy, and that he has fallen in with the social customs which are undermining all the manhood of this college. It is no less edifying to hear some philosophic spirit pronounce social success a bubble which men are foolishly pursuing, and confidently declare that complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect. When this frank philosopher assures us that, whatever others may do, he will not "crook...