Word: poco
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GREAT interest having been manifested in the heretofore secret proceedings of a certain band of conspirators known to the College as the Ferocity, your correspondent, disguised as a poco, succeeded in obtaining entrance to their place of meeting, where, carefully concealed, he remained, a silent, but interested spectator of the proceedings...
WHEN an umbrella with the owner's name on it is stolen from Memorial Hall, one is consoled by the thought that it may have been taken by some poco who strolled into the umbrella rack; but when a student has a hat with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students...
...spring the passive poco tempts you with a dollar note...
LAST year we were all pleased to see that the College authorities had taken measures to exclude book agents, pedlers, etc., from the College buildings. Even University forbade the speculating "Poco" from plying his trade at the office. Within the last month, however, the "Pocos" have taken courage, and again begun their annoying visits to College rooms in defiance of the threat of the authorities to hand all such offenders over to the police. We trust that when the attention of the College authorities has been once called to the fact that their rules are being violated, all cause...
...occasional poco can still be seen in spite of the signs in the entries...