Word: hole
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...morning had been devoted to a contest in ploughing, for Orono is decidedly agricultural in its interests, and before three o'clock the class of '76 had donned their frock-coats and with resplendent button-hole bouquets were marching into the town-hall...
...horribly bad (oh! Snodkins, '80) and delightful, and at once wishes herself a collegian. Such are some of the remarks we hear outside. College men, of course, have their own peculiar facon de panler. Of all the epithets that they use, the most remarkable is that of a "Hole." The meaning of this word has often puzzled me, as I have heard it from men as different as the meanings they apparently attach...
...instance, the Freshman who has had his leading-strings cut that he might come to college, dubs our University a "hole," either contrasting with the pure and good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this...
...loss. She added, by way of consolation, "Bad 'cess to it! 'T was always a thrippin' me up." And I have no doubt the majority of the entry would have indorsed her sentiments, if not her brogue; for the mat, although by no means a complete hole, was yet very perfect in its way, and had acquired many of the properties that are supposed to be peculiar to traps. One rent in particular seemed to fit the universal foot, - "foot" in general, and not any particular foot, - for it arrested equally quickly the orangeman and the Sophomore who wears ladies...
...LARGE hole has been made in the Yard back of the Library, and the dwellers on the back of Weld will have their fill of noise next winter. The disciples of Goodeve will be seen in large numbers in that part of the Yard; and it has been suggested that the Corporation would save money by holding next year's recitations in Mechanics there, and obliging the Freshmen to perform practical examples...