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Word: scum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1881-1881
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...ditch that breathes malaria, the stagnant cistern's scum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COPYRIGHT CONGRESS. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

WHEN what was once a public convenience becomes a public nuisance it should be abated. So long as only students and their friends frequented the gallery of Memorial Hall, those who boarded there were disposed to raise no objection; when the public at large - even the very scum and rabble of society - come to regard it as a place of popular resort, something should at once be done to bar out all such interlopers. The propriety of allowing any visitors during meal-time is questionable; and persons unaccompanied by students should at all hazards be rigidly excluded. The Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

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