Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...afflicted, the practice of requiring blue books to be brought to the last recitation before the examination is perhaps the most exasperating. For weeks before the "Mid-Years," as the time approaches five minutes past the hour, a frequent succession of students rush wildly into Seve's, and breathlessly slap their specie on the counter, to the intense amusement of the clerks, who, always busily engaged in the back part of the store, are deaf to all prayers for haste. We know, from bitter experience, that it is absolutely impossible to think of getting the examination books until after having...