Word: flunking
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...Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard Saint Michel is the Boul Mich; his 'den' is his boite. . . . The Parisian students do not, to any great extent, indulge in rowing, athletics...
...crawl, I weaken, I ignominiously flunk...
...flunk in college. You 're the boss snide - a tart piece on a tare...
What we call a flunk or a dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...
...slang : "Cork," - flunk; "Tip a curl" - make a dead rush; "Take a calico ticket," - devote too much attention to snab; "On Dike," - quite the dear George...