Word: scum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those early days there was no Hemenway gymnasium, and few of the present dormitories existed. Holworthy was the much-desired residence of all. The students' rooms were meagrely furnished with all that was cast off at home. Freshmen were looked upon as "the scum of the earth." When Judge Grant entered in 1869 he received a letter informing him that if he "treated" the upper-classmen, he would not be molested. On Bloody Monday the freshmen and sophomores had assembled for the regular "rush" in the gymnasium, and hostilities were about to begin, when one of the professors appeared...
...reason that all government should rest on the consent of the governed and not on the payment of a poll tax. This tax tends to keep the rich man in office and the poor man out. He said that the men kept from voting are not the scum of our population, but are honest and intelligent citizens. He cited the case of John T. Andrew to show that the present system by inducing the politicians to pay the poll taxes of the rabble, tends to indirect bribery and corruption...