Word: struts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need not be surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging of their eleven (the "finest), ought certainly to have the self-respect to meet the expenses of a victorious team, or enjoy the reputation of unparalleled selfishness and lethargy...
...this way your first winter will be spent, and when it comes time for election into societies in the spring, one of two things will happen, - you will either be in the "first ten," or you will not. If you are a member of the "first ten" you can strut about as much as you please, leave off calling your athletic friends "old fellow," and bow graciously to Seniors; if not, another path is open to you. Those of your friends who are in must be greater friends than ever. Add "old boy" where you formerly said "old fellow...
...Senior strut and swell...