Word: pollers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...learn that so large a proportion of the students remained at Cambridge during the holiday vacation, and were to be seen carrying huge piles of books from the library. This gives us a new insight into the character of the Harvard man. We always knew he was a poller. But this activity is alarming. It at least suggests another argument in favor of college athletics. The most muscular man can carry the heaviest burden of books. [Yale...