Word: mat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole college stands ready to aid them with its encouragement and support, for they must share with them the victory or defeat which is to come. May '87 see their responsibility in time, and by improving on the good work done by '86 last year mat they succeed in again bringing the class championship to Harvard...
...much-abused mat...
...must have the shingle of a society (to which he probably does not belong) we are sure, we say, that if he makes application to the society they will have him a shingle printed, and even have it put in a nice gilt frame, with perhaps even a plush mat; but such childish and mean actions, if persisted in, will certainly result in serious discomfort to the guilty one if, as will surely happen sometime, he is ever detected...
...record in the running high jump does not count as a record, inasmuch as a mat was used...
...NOTICE on the first floor of College House requests the inhabitants to be quiet on account of the illness of a student. A mat is spread in the hall to stop the noise of walking, - a precaution which suggests that it be permanently kept up. A wicked Sophomore was heard to remark that if illness brings mats into the hall, it might be desirable to have an invalid constantly in the building...