Word: smites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite the tables with their canes. Even this ear-splitting uproar does not do full justice to the enthusiasm of one group. So they leap upon their table, and thus elevated, stamping, smiting, clashing, pour forth their souls in song. We will not wait to see the last student roll under...
...sweet, laughing voice: "Why, certainly; you know, do you not, that I am of the Aristippean school, and my motto is '???,' that is, 'I smite, but am not smitten...
...they smite us, sha'n't we smite again...