Word: pokerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College student, and the Good Editor of the Wise Paper says that all College students are Bad Men. Name some of the attributes of College students. College students smoke Cigarettes and they Rush a great deal, and Haze one another, and, oh! some of them play Poker. But only the very Worst play Poker. So this must be a Yale man. Go away, you Bold...
...good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional...
...interesting fact concerning the jurors in the Guiteau trial has leaked out. It appears that they amused themselves during their idle moments playing cards, seven-up and poker being their favorite games...
...Lacrosse is not generally recognized as deserving or receiving the general support of the University." What, then, has tennis done to gain that "general support"? In what way does it represent the University as a whole? Why should it be called a "college institution" any more than whist or poker, - for these, too, are college "amusements...
...Angel Gabriel will be the last authority on poker. He will raise all creation first, and then call the crowd...