Word: meershaum
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...back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before...
...long period of time at Yale without attracting any particular attention was capped recently by the sleasing of two meerschaum pipes, whereupon the students aroused themselves, and the thief was at once caught. There are many wrongs which a college community patiently endures, but the abstraction of its meershaum pipes is not one of these. -[Cornell...
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