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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect recitation is called a "tear" at Princeton, "squirt" at Harvard, "sail" at Bowdoin, "rake" at Williams and "cold rush" at Amherst. A failure in recitation receives the title of "slump" at Harvard, a "stump" at Princeton, a "smash" at Wesleyan and a "flunk" at Amherst. - Amherst Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

Down to the News, that literary squirt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...squirt in my elective, - that you call the soft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

When we make a brilliant recitation we squirt, or, more commonly, rush. With us this "consummation devoutly to be wished" is the result of grinding or digging. At Williams they grub and make a high-ti.* At the University of Virginia, curl was their synonym for this successful ending of work. At Princeton grinding is called poling, from the verb to pole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLANGOGRAPHY. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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