Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ENGLISH 6. November 4, at 2 P. M., in Sever 5. Debate on the following question : Resolved, That the continued existence of the Republican party is unfavorable to the establishment of order and civil freedom in the Southern States. Affirmative, Messrs. Adams, Godkin, and Dazey; Negative, Messrs. Coolidge, DeWindt, and Jackson...
...from whom Don Jose has little trouble in winning Carmen. Mme. Dolaro, who plays in the title-role, is a charming actress, and a very pretty woman. Miss Williams plays her part very cleverly. Next week, "La Fille du Tambour Major," by the same company. October 25, "Voyagers in Southern Seas...
Then comes a faded rose, a Jacqueminot, and the disease takes this phase: "This rose I had from Kate. She was the most grandly beautiful woman I ever saw; we met at Baltimore, during that Southern trip I took last spring, when the Faculty thought best, - you remember. I never appreciated Byron till I saw her. No cold hard outlines, but the rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere...
PROF. CHARLES S. SARGENT is making a tour of observation through the forests of the Southern States...
What we call a flunk or a dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...