Word: shovelers
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...insane asylum. Then comes a long lesson in spelling, as an unlucky exchange has spelt. "Niagara" "Niagra." And the exchanges end with a biting piece of satire on the Dartmouth, and a hint that its poetical editor, and, indeed, most college poets, had better "learn to handle a shovel or do chores." Verily we tremble in our boots...
...American manners and customs at table, in which it was pointed out that our meals should be plain and simple, well cooked, and served in such a way that our dinner should be a time of enjoyment, and not a vexatious delay, in our fierce rush through life, to shovel in enough food to keep the machine going for a day. The writer said that Harvard was trying to refine her sons by obliging them to have three separate courses at dinner, and, though that particular reform may have been unnecessary, there is certainly plenty of room for further improvements...
Heats a red shovel for sheeoge...