Word: gall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Maiden with lips so Rosy. Jan Gall Glee Club...
...most cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call...
...flavor with the essence of unmitigated gall...
...that slang, if we may so term it, has become a constant quantity in all that we say. Professors "cut" and students "crib." We elect "soft" or "stiff" courses. We get a "whooper" or "plucked" in consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall it be when the instructor says "Doncherknow?" or when we meet a friend who declares that "this...
...suddenly blossomed out into the toughest man in the class. Spurs were given to the one who used the most steeds (ponys and trots) by the men who used them least. Music followed; and then the "Jaw bone of an ass" was received by the man with the most "gall." from the quietest fellow." The "Spade" and "Pillow" were given to the greatest dig and to the laziest man respectively. A "Spoon" was presented to the greatest eater, a Comb to the man who best represented that class; and a Knife to the greatest "cutter...