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Word: realing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Senior class debates have been successful in one respect at least, they have developed a real fourth of July orator. Witness: "the great American Eagle stands with one foot in Alaska and the other on Cape Cod; dips its tail in the St. Lawrence and drinks from the Gulf of Mexico."-(Amherst Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/4/1885 | See Source »

...with great pleasure that we call attention to an article in one of our columns taken from a Chicago paper. It is indeed flattering to have such homage part to Harvard students, and it may be the real feeling of many who profess to think otherwise. The young lady was evidently much surprised that she could travel alone out to the wilds of Chicago and Athol, and went prepared as some Europeans who expect to find Indians in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1885 | See Source »

...seek. In ancient days any tradesman who had money owing him from an undergraduate, might arrest the Proctor's course by plucking his sleeve, and so prevent the defaulter from taking his degree till his debt had been discharged. Few people know that this is the real origin of the term 'plucked' as applied to failure in examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bit of Oxford Slang. | 1/24/1885 | See Source »

Again we feel it necessary to deny the semi-annual statement of the Yale News concerning the large number of editors with which our paper is carried on. This time the New Haven oracle puts it at twenty-five, where as the real number is twelve, not including the three business editors. From time to time the News manufactures such items for its readers, pointing proudly to its own board of eleven, the publication of which, by the way, serves to help fill up the editorial column every issue. We do not make any claims to rival our Yale contemporary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/22/1885 | See Source »

...officers of the Art Club have made. This offer will remain open until next Monday and seems advantageous enough to be accepted. We have no doubt that there are a sufficient number of persons interested in the aims and purposes of an Art Club to insure its success. The real difficulty is in getting these men together. We would therefore propose that a meeting be held in the rooms of the club for the purpose of forming another organization. A notice of this meeting could be circulated, and an opportunity thus offered for those interested to get together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/22/1885 | See Source »

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