Word: loafered
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...real student from any part of the country will find no difficulty in entering Harvard and the loafer will find it harder, a condition that certainly would suggest a higher level of undergraduate scholarship. If the scholarship within the College is any cullerion of the standard of entrance requirements, it would follow also that the new system would raise the bars a peg rather than tend in any way to lower them...
...have heard much recently of sanity in athletics, of growing respect for the scholar, and of contempt for the loafer. It is impossible to measure exactly the growth of such public opinion, if it exists. We are still some way from the time when the "H" of a major team and a Phi Beta Kappa key will be esteemed of equal value. But the very indifference which attends the ending of the free elective system is evidence that such an opinion is being formed. In the good old days when Harvard was but a College, all men of necessity were...
...other prose articles and poems in the Advocate are of varied merit; "A Day in His Life," an unsigned story, is, with the exception of the class day parts, the most interesting contribution to the number. The fact that the writer deals with the traditional loafer, his repentance and regeneration, does not mar the interest of the story, for the plot is set forth and made to seem almost new by an unusually vigorous style. One feels disappointed, however, that the writer should confess himself unable to evolve a climax from an interesting and difficult situation, by stating finally that...
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...
Hour examinations would of necessity be a spur to the habitual loafer, and would certainly raise the standard of college work at large...