Word: jam
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...order to make dancing possible in the evening, only a limited number of tickets to the Hall should be issued. If each Senior have but one ticket, transferable and admitting an indefinite number of ladies, an uncomfortable jam in the Hall would be prevented, and, certainly, Terpsichore would be rendered most grateful...
...Claudite jam rivos, pueri." Shut up, you old boy! The pen grows garrulous on the old theme of Harvard's triumph, and the memories recalled by her colors borne to the front so often in the summer...
Hoop-La, 3, Jim-Jam...
...were offered that she would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course became completely blocked, over 490 boats being hopelessly entangled, - Vassar ahead, clear...
...Wesleyan followed the example set by their swarthy rival, while Vassar now led all three by half a mile. Suddenly Heap-swearing Fox, stroke of the Indian crew, drew a tomahawk from his belt, and with an appalling yell buried it in the brain of the unfortunate Jim-Jam...