Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Recess from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2. - The Freshman swings his earliest cane and talks of "the men of '83." The Sophomore astonishes his governor with his knowledge of wines. The lady-killing Junior digs up the tomahawk and begins to count his scalps. And the Senior furtively tries on a beaver for Class...
...exchange editor of the Niagara Index has got a new supply of eagle plumes, put on fresh war-paint, taken a firm grip of his tomahawk, and once more is on the war-path. He begins by slaughtering the University Press. A mild suggestion follows, that the editor of the OEst. us should be placed in an insane asylum. Then comes a long lesson in spelling, as an unlucky exchange has spelt. "Niagara" "Niagra." And the exchanges end with a biting piece of satire on the Dartmouth, and a hint that its poetical editor, and, indeed, most college poets...
Yale and Wesleyan followed the example set by their swarthy rival, while Vassar now led all three by half a mile. Suddenly Heap-swearing Fox, stroke of the Indian crew, drew a tomahawk from his belt, and with an appalling yell buried it in the brain of the unfortunate...
...Susan B. A. Smith, stroke of the Vassar crew, fainted dead away; the Wesleyan crew ceased rowing, and initiated an impromptu prayer-meeting; while Ephraim G. Stubbs, livid with fright, set his crew a tremendous stroke, in order to put a safe distance between his woolly head and the tomahawk of the red-skin...