Word: subs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SUB-FRESHMAN, on his way to College, met a Junior with a Large and Handsome Dog. The Lad spoke to the Animal, and said, "Come with me, and I will buy me a new Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent...
...Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building...
More Janitorism. JANITOR (to an unoffending Sub-Fresh., who has asked where his brother, Simpkins, '81, rooms), "Ain't 81 rooms in the buildin'. What yer givin' us, hey?" Exit, proud of having foiled his adversary. (Fact...
...Canst thou love a lone Sub-Freshman...
...Lone Sub-Freshman, Diggy dear...