Word: regent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WILL it do to say anything in a college paper about a class of musicians whom the College authorities, and especially the regent of the Yard, seem to regard with peculiar abhorrence, though why they should harbor such a prejudice would appear to the undergraduate mind to be due to the same cloudy wisdom that enwraps so many others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling...
...really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent, "perfectly Corinthian." I need not say that I refer to that well-known organization, the R. E. T., - Rapid Eaters of Tarts. We have occasional meetings, at which are performed certain mysterious rites, which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge; and after the serious business of the evening...