Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yearling", the CRIMSON's pet word for "Freshman", is defined by Stormonth as "a beast in the second year of its age". L. B. R. BRIGGS November...
...recovery from the slump which resulted in its decisive overthrow at the hands of Yale last week, defeated the University on the courts at Hanover Saturday afternoon by the score of 4-2. The two matches which went to the Crimson were won with comparative case, but the Green pet-men demonstrated in three matches their ability to come through after a long battle and it was this capacity to win points at the critical times that turned the balance in favor of the New Hampshire college...
...home is complete--is a home at all--without its "Charles", though his name may be Edward, Will, John, or other pet cognomen; he is a husband from every little word and act of the day,--overshoes, glasses, brief case, relatives, and Christmas list...
...complacent freshman sometimes thinks seriously of dropping the course until his fears are assuaged by the assurance that the lecturer will be forced to omit a few minor details. Subsequently he learns that all the world is chemistry; and is later informed that the atoms and electrons are the pet playthings of the physicists. With everybody intruding on everybody else's territory, is it surprising that the undergraduate not infrequently studies physics under a mathematics professor or learns his economics from a course on Government...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging". The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much-abused one. The pledge-making a mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and the Sunday school but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system...