Word: scar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. A white bull-terrier bitch; scar on the head; plain leather collar. Liberal reward offered to the finder. Apply to the Janitor of Beck Hall...
...killed, for the combatants wear about the neck and body thick leather pads, and thick glasses before the eyes, so that the only place where they are cut is on the face. The students are very proud of these cuts, and in case they see that a scar will not be very noticeable, it is often a fact that they tear it open and pour wine into it. After a student has fought a certain fixed number of duels (some ten or twelve), he receives a band of ribbon, which he wears across his breast, under his coat; upon receipt...
...thirty minutes. When one is wounded he is led away and his victor must fight a fresh foe. If he succeeds in vanquishing all comers he is declared the class champion and is obliged to fight all challengers. The wound received is not dangerous but always leaves a scar, and almost every student one meets in a university town bears the marks of his encounters upon his face. Strange to say these scars are not considered proof of his unskillfulness but as marks of glory...
...That'll do," I moaned. "That's a little to (o scar)ious for me. Give us something else." With his ever-present sardonic grin he pityingly assented, and turned to an effusion by a Junior who had been to the latest opera. It also seems he got 39 once in Physics...
Brought to waking, scar'd and still...