Word: fray
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Several sophomores had donned their war-clothes under the toga virilis, which in this case may be truly said to have covered many defects. After the announcements were all over, those whose hearts were not unduly weighted down with conditions, rushed to the halls to prepare for the fray. At the east end stood a couple of sophs gazing fondly upon their thirty-dollar darling, which was a striking illustration of the beautiful and useful combined in one, needing only the bowl-man held in its gentle embrace, after the manner of the acorn, to make the picture complete...
Great excitement was occasioned in the yard last night by the little game of "Push, gently Push," played by the sub-juniors and freshman. Much gore was spilled, one freshman having received a bloody-nose in the fray. He was rescued and carried from the field by his gallant nurse, who administered pap to him in small doses. The latest advices say he is slowly recovering and his faithful nurse, Mrs. Maginnis is the heroine of the hour...
...said in my last paper, the Harvard nine, confident of success, "went gaily to the fray" like the Knights of Old whom they so much resembled. Their defeat and humiliation followed, and with heavy hearts they began to labor anew...
...avoid a rush in the spring." (The italics are our own). We wish to state frankly that we felt some hesitancy in admitting these revolutionary words to our journal. We felt that our reputation was at stake, for did we not barely a month since, denounce vigorously the disgraceful fray in which the two classes forming the substrata of the college participated? Yet we yielded, for we knew that nothing but the fear of severe bodily injury could ever induce a senior class to refrain from delaying until the last moment in the matter of making appointments with the photographer...
...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...