Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members will please take the name of J. G. Green, shoe dealer, from the list of tradesmen. No successor...
...Rochester, the sophomores and freshmen engaged in a fiercely fought gum-shoe battle. The fight continued until the president of the college appeared on the scene. Black eyes and bloody noses were the fashion. Only one student was badly wounded. The sophomores suffered most. It is thought that the ill-feeling between the two classes will now be dropped, and that the faculty will take no action in the matter. [Collegian...
...first in which the names of the students of Harvard College appeared in alphabetical order. Before that date the students of each class were arranged in order, according to the rank which their parents held in the social world. A good story is told of a shoe maker's son who came to Harvard. When asked as to what station his father held in life, he replied that he held a position on the bench. The student was accordingly ranked among the upper men of his class...
Also leaves from the text-book, and lines on the shoe...
...Miller's moustache retains its faded color. We wonder that he does not try shoe blacking or shoe polish, and thus give a dark shade to his upper...