Word: raked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect recitation is called a "tear" at Princeton, "squirt" at Harvard, "sail" at Bowdoin, "rake" at Williams and "cold rush" at Amherst. A failure in recitation receives the title of "slump" at Harvard, a "stump" at Princeton, a "smash" at Wesleyan and a "flunk" at Amherst. - Amherst Student...
...once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose their lustre and brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when...
...regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart would not be a rake rather than a hunchback, a villain rather than a fool? In spite of all the moralists, we cannot admire desert or merit as much as the gifts of nature and fortune. There is nothing of which we are so proud as of a good family, a handsome face, a strong body...
...everything but poker. I sadly fear that is is our last resource, and I have no hesitation in saying, that should an intercollegiate poker association be formed my alma mater would not be found in the rear ranks. Harvard, Yale and little Rutgers would find it less easy to "rake in a jack-pot," than to kick a goal...
...small looking-glass, or that you have more trousers than neckties, and keep a large stock of boots rather than a pin-cushion full of scarf-pins! I fully intended to take you to Mrs. De Sorosis' reception this week, but my space will not allow it. Rake down the fire, light a cigarette, and dream over a French novel in your dress coat instead, and learn how pleasant it is. One should only read French novels in a dress coat, I think, and philosophy in an ulster...