Word: prussianized
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...sweltering in the July heat, either at home or at the sea-shore, are doomed to enthusiasm over a mere "elegant" newspaper report of the contest between the College "boys," who occupy, in the depths of the reporter's mind, an indefinite position somewhere between a "mucker" and a Prussian count. Jarvis is not to be filled with the beauty of Cambridge, attracted by the prospects of an exciting struggle; but the wretched field is to see nothing more inspiriting than practice-playing, or, at best, the slaughter of such noble game as the King Philips or the Tufts...