Word: tarring
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...boys of Northfield College, Minnesota, were having a great deal of fun in changing a physician's sign for that of an undertaker, when a big kettle, full of warm tar, was emptied upon them from the roof of the house. More than twenty of them had to throw away their clothes and get their hair cut very short...
...alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last...
Showed each one thought his own class had the boss tar...
Students wishing to use the bowling-alleys will file an application the day before, together with an entrance-fee of five dollars in case of damages. After this has been approved by the Council of Ten, the Ferocity, the Precedent, and the Direct Tar, the application will be returned to the student, who will then proceed to the janitor, who will give him an order on the attendant, who will assign him an alley...
...respectfully submit to the authorities that the practice of putting tarred bands around the trees is demoralizing. Three Seniors wasted a whole afternoon, the other day, in betting on the order in which the different bugs would get above the tar...