Word: thereabout
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...into which "that good old custom" has fallen. Of late years hazing has been gradually softening down into a system of roughing - varied by an occasional barbarity - severe enough to injure only that stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed the "rushes" and single encounters of that dread night. This long-desired result has been brought about, primarily, not by the efforts and regulations...