Word: swells
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Come Juniors swell and Seniors tall...
That in time she might marry an elegant swell...
...MEMBER of '83, who comes from the "Far West," seeing Jones tugging at the bell-rope, exclaimed, "Well, I always knew they were very swell here at Harvard, but I didn't suppose there were elevators in the buildings." (Fact...
...flees to his real recitation-room in U. 23, and finds his section gone; time, 10.06. Grind on Sleet and the swell Seniors...
...Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever in the sea of lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped; I admit it is rather "swell," and gives people the impression that you have come to college only because it is the proper thing, and not to learn anything or prepare yourself for such a vulgar occupation as earning your bread. Still, some men who are gentlemen, and even have money, do not get dropped...