Word: idol
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hazing at Union College is over for this year. Four sophomores were detected in the act of placing a freshman on a Chinese idol standing behind the college and were promptly suspended, but were reinstated on condition that each one in the class would sign an agreement not to do any more hazing...
Hard drinking and brilliant swordplay are the chief requisites for glory at the universities. A German student who does not duel (they all drink) is socially ostracised ; while he who excels in both fencing and drinking becomes at once the idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...
...impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol of the possessor. Culture in our time needs to have a man in good 'condition' behind it to command popular respect. The grandeur of the 'college consumptives,' as Dennis Kearney called them, is gone forever...
...idol of Maine...