Word: talisman
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...conventional rules, and dozens of men who call themselves polite behave like barbarians. Their religious belief is a mere acceptance of family traditions; why they hold it is as mysterious as is to the Freshman the query, "Why am I in college?" Their knowledge, too, they hold as some talisman to be used, apparently, in imposing upon others, but nevertheless as something so entirely separate from their own characters that the very mention of it is ground for the accusation of "talking shop...