Word: n
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...n't propose, and get told that she was already engaged...
Here a hard, dissipated, and blase look tried to cross the Freshman's visage as he prepared to shock the N. C., but, suddenly thinking that the man might be a Herald reporter in feeble disguise, he foxily changed base, and replied, "As for smoking and drinking, I guess, as a rule, we are not so bad as the papers make out, but in betting we have to give odds to Yale...
...doubt," said the N. C., with a sympathizing smile. "But what now is your opinion of the co-education of the sexes at Harvard? Don't you think it will result in the elopement of the prettiest girls to Illinois with the professors...
...this time the T. F. had, as he thought, penetrated the "feeble disguise," and consequently tried hard to think of something sensational and alarming to tell him; but, failing in this, he was forced to put on his boldest look, and say he guessed the girls would n't bother the fellows...
...Well, don't you think they would giggle at Chapel, and cry when flunked in recitations, and would n't they organize a praying band and go round and shut up Adam...