Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...participation in the recent Washington's Birthday scrape at Wesleyan, six students were suspended for the rest of the year, and eleven until May 1st. No action was taken in Hubbard's case...
...once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that when newspapers like the Record are ever on the watch for some foolish scrape to magnify, these childish freshmen should be so willing to furnish opportunities. Nipety-two has made an honorable name through the efforts of the manly young fellows who fought so well Saturday. Alas, that the newly-earned honor should be tarnished by less worthy sons...
...easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible and dishonest, to his face...
...their distribution. Pecuniary aid is intended for "meritorious students in needy circumstances"; let the man who keeps expensive apartments or spends money freely on clubs, sports, etc., ask himself conscientiously if he deserves such aid, when some of his classmates whose records entitle them to it, have to scrape along on a sum perhaps half as large as that he spends...
...most amusing to all who are within its precincts and get a glimpse of the true state of affairs, and it is only on account of the antiquity of the accusations that laughter is restrained. Age has given the charge a veneer of truth which modern investigation will scrape off in a few seconds showing the rottenness of the under structure...