Word: skins
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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April 11, Prof. J. C. White, "The Structure and Care of the Skin...
...sheep-skin ragged away...
...last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless returned it to its native dust-heap; or, better still, some match-boy, in sympathy with its kindred rags, has put the mat to a similar use with the old sheep-skin which Bryan O'Lynn appropriated, when, as the ballad runs, "he had no breeches to wear...
...thoroughly before allowing itself to use such very candid and emphatic language. We have, however, long since ceased to be surprised at any misconstruction the Yale papers may put on our actions, and we can only say that when the leopard has changed his spots, and the Ethiopian his skin, then, and not till then, shall we look for fairness and civility in the Yale Record...
...editorial staff of the Nation, but from the exigencies of college life. I need not stop to point out the various causes that tend to produce the flippant tone among students which has struck our author. It is but the cant of our profession, and is only skin-deep. The curious might go on to analyze it into the effect of sudden accession of liberty upon the "youthful mind," the opportunities for loafing, the half-aimless life of most students, together with the neighborhood of a large city. But it is worth our while to notice that this...