Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycling machine called the Harvard tandem has made its appearance...
...English gentlemen has patented an ingenious device, consisting of a bar, by means of which the front wheels of two bicycles may be joined and driven tandem by two riders. The first advantage immediately apparent is that falling over the handles in quite impossible. A greatly increased pace is attainable, and this, with the augmented safety, enables ascents and descents to be taken, which previously caused dismounts to be made. The tandem can be quickly taken to pieces, and the two large wheels transformed into separate machines...
...proctors or "bull-dogs" are the university spies or night police, who vigilantly watch and report to the proctors all escapades they discover. Fines are inflicted for not wearing the cap and gown, for smoking, playing billiards after nine o'clock, and finally, says the Graphic, "the driving of tandem is the eighth deadly sin." So our friends at Oberlin can console themselves with the knowledge that their college is not the exclusive home of blue laws; Oxford presses them close in the race-backwards...
...shield - aw - I would have Cupid - aw - on a golden field - aw - handing me his bow and arrows - aw - For braces - aw - pardon me, supports, I - aw - would have on one side - aw - the governor holding out his purse to me, and - aw - on the other a tandem, a tiger, and a dogcart with my monogram on the side - aw - For a motto, 'L'argent et I'amour sans travail...