Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter term at Dartmouth opened Jan. 22, after a vacation of four weeks...
...affords, but beyond that their means are limited. Not having any regular athletic grounds, their opportunities for out-of-door games are rather poor. It is largely to this cause and the want of leisure hours that the "Tech" men have figured so poorly in athletics. Moreover, the spring term closing at the end of May brings the examination period so early that little time is afforded for practice at that season of the year. In-doors the men have their own gymnasium, which is but poorly fitted up, and the B. Y. M. C. A. gymnasium even nearer...
...vacation at the Mass. Institute of Technology has begun. The next term opens...
From the 'Varsity we take the following explanation of the origin of the term "plucked," which first came into vogue at Oxford. The choice bit of college slang was, at first, of a very different significance from that which now attaches to it. Its present meaning is very nearly equivalent to that of our own term, "dropped," a term which. in all probability, will never require any very elaborate explanation. Speaking of the functions of an Oxford proctor, the 'Varsity says...
...ancient days any tradesman who had money owing him from an undergraduate, might arrest the Proctor's course by plucking his sleeve, and so prevent the defaulter from taking his degree till his debt had been discharged. Few people know that this is the real origin of the term 'plucked' as applied to failure in examination...