Word: freshwoman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshwomen did not care to carry canes, but did insist upon wearing back hair, it was agreed that at 4 o'clock on Monday last the two classes should meet on the college campus, and that one freshwoman, to be chosen by her classmates, should appear with back hair in position. The sophomores were then to make a united effort to deprive the freshwoman of her back hair, and the other freshwomen were to defend her, and upon the issue of the struggle was to depend the right of the freshwomen to wear back hair during the rest...
...rush took place promptly at the appointed hour. The classes were not unequally matched, for, although there were twenty-eight freshwomen and twenty-four sophomores, the aggregate weight of the latter was largely in excess of that of their competitors. The freshwoman who wore the back hair for which the battle was to be fought, was placed in the centre of a compact mass of her classmates, who were resolved to defend her at all hazards. The sophomores, confident of an easy victory, had made few preparations for the contest, except that of putting on their oldest clothes, and they...
...hour the two classes struggled for the mastery. The campus was strewn with torn skirts and sowed thick with hairpins, and the faculty, hanging on the outskirts of the combatants, and weeping and wringing their hands, were powerless to restore order. Gradually the sophomores fought their way to the freshwoman who wore the back hair, and finally they triumphantly tore it from her head. At the same moment the freshwomen, inspired by a happy thought, simultaneously seized the quack hair of their opponents and fled to their rooms, each bearing her trophy...