Word: silk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...relieving himself of his burden, bade him look to his elective. My heart melted to see my companions groaning under their respective loads. There were, however, one or two persons who gave me great diversion. I observed a swell Senior bringing in a bundle carefully concealed under a polished silk hat, which, on his throwing it down in the heap, I discovered to be a bill at Carl's. A Junior, after a great deal of puffing, threw down his luggage, which, on examination, I found to be his flabby chum. There were numbers of black eyes and sore heads...
...made a pun in his Fine Arts Lecture. The fellows endeavored to show their appreciation by a thundering wooding-up and yells of applause. This seeming derision was too much for the hot blood of the Eastern Despot, - he sailed for the rabble. . . . The pieces of pigtail and silk trousers which hang as trophies in rooms of Seniors and Juniors might suggest his appearance as he came on the field...
...there's a dainty silk rosette...