Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greater part of the fall. The news of Harvard's challenge created quite a stir among us and the matter of its acceptance was very widely discussed. There was a large element opposed to acceptance, and with reason. The desire, however, to make Harvard understand that Columbia is no mean rival, which, judging from expressions of Harvard men in the past, that high and mighty institution seems to think she is, overcame the opposition and the challenge was accepted by the unanimous vote of the students in mass meeting assembled. The race in June will show what the probable result...
...throughout with that vigor and abandon which have always marked her play, and which her uniform success has proved to be necessary qualities in the play of a winning team," cries the Record. "Vigor and abandon" are very good, are excellent, and are terms (especially the latter) that may mean a great deal...
Inquiring freshman - "I wonder what they mean by putting 'Ex.' after an itetm?" Second ditto - "Why, Exonian, of course...
From the beginning of the freshman year Yale men are forced to learn and practice the mean and unfair methods which have become known universally as "Yale tricks." The new freshmen on the foot-ball field are daily cuffed, thumped and trampled upon until, in their desperation, they retaliate and finally learn to play the game which meets the condemnation of every one except a few "Yale supporters," who follow the team about, forced by the public opinion of their college to wave the blue handkerchiefs, sport the blazing society pins, and applaud the "thug like" playing which is greeted...
...collect a crowd of young bloods together that they might have a high time. No wonder so many young men cannot go to college because all this high living is so costly. If they refuse to pay the taxes for all sorts of fooling they are shoved aside as mean fellows, and this ostracism very few can bear. It costs a student at Yale or Harvard from $1200 to $2000 a year if he is going to be in full rapport with his class. It becomes college trustees to see that these expensive habits, so inimical to all true study...