Word: poke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard University has been considering seriously the advisability of establishing compulsory physical exercise for all undergraduates. The Overseers have recommended such a course for the Freshmen, and during the present week some definite plan for next year may be adopted. Other universities and colleges will be apt to poke a great deal of fun at Harvard for allowing such tremendous liberties in courses, attendance, religious worship, etc, only to draw a disciplinary line in athletics. In other words the Faculty will say the soul may go to perdition but the body will be kept healthy by law. After all such...
...make a success of the drill, the other course must be given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles. The training is most valuable and on the whole is as good a rest for a man who is hard at work on his courses as about...