Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harrie Beekman Drake '88, of Auburndale, Mass., died of pneumonia August 27 at Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Drake fitted for college at the Cambridge Latin School and graduated with the class of '88. After graduating he taught school for a time in New London, Conn., and for the last three years had charge of the classical department at St. George's Hall, Summit, N. J. While in college Drake was on the University lacrosse team and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and several literary organizations. His high intellectual attainments and congenial nature won him many friends...
...Jersey Legislature, on Thursday, April 19, a bill to punish hazing in colleges was defeated. This action was taken on the recommenertion of the presidents of Princeton and Rutgers colleges, who said that they preferred to enforce the college rules against hazing, and that the statute laws already covered hazing cases...
chowder probably came to us from the island of Jersey through our Marblehead fishermen-corrupted from the French chaudiere, while our intercourse with the Dutch settlers of the New Netherlands is recorded in the phrase span of horses. From the Germans we got the word loaf and loafer. From the Spanish Mexicans vamose. Such examples might be multiplied without number...
...Jersey Athletic Club has sent out invitations to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and U. of P. to contest in a team race to be held in June, similar to the one which was run last year. It is not yet certain whether the race will come off, as none of the colleges have yet been heard from...