Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Let in the Freshman very wise...
...fails. It is useless to say that it is not the business of undergraduates to provide a heated room for a regularly appointed instructor, or to subscribe for plank walks for college property. We can get them, apparently, in no other way. If men are not willing to subscribe, let us hear no more of the complaints that have been so often made for several years past. The thousand men who, during five months of the year, are put to such inconvenience by slush and mud in the Yard should surely be willing to subscribe a sum sufficient to provide...
...right, but I think very few undergraduates at present would know what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general word would scarcely have had time to spring up and die since 1856. The best of our original words is doggy, a very expressive term, which - with the noun dog, derived from it - is almost unknown out of Cambridge...
...Let in the Freshman very wise...
...Let in the Freshman very wise...