Word: necked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every Tuesday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and, as a result, the students who have been fighting soon appear with their faces done up in cotton and carbolic acid. In these duels it is impossible for anyone to be killed, for the combatants wear about the neck and body thick leather pads, and thick glasses before the eyes, so that the only place where they are cut is on the face. The students are very proud of these cuts, and in case they see that a scar will not be very noticeable, it is often a fact...
...news was brought from the Country Club last evening that Mr. Frank Codman, '83, fell under his horse in the steeple chase, and was instantly killed. The horse belonged to an outsider and tripped on the fence, rolling completely over, and breaking its own neck. Mr. Codman leaves a large circle of sorrowing friends at the college, and his sudden death has cast a gloom over the entire college...
Lost. - A bull terrier bitch, pure white, scarred on the neck. Had on a metal collar lined with leather. Finder will receive reward by returning dog to 34 Beck Hall...
...custom of some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this practice the unfortunate student in such courses is compelled to rush down innumerable flights of stairs and make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else...
...excursions in N. H. 8 this week will be to Marblehead Neck, May 19 and 20. Trains leave the Eastern Station for Devereux...