Word: undergrades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recently gave to the world the Latin Address despatched to Harvard by some Cambridge Undergrad. It has been received with unparalleled enthusiasm in America, and the following strictly classical reply was agreed to at a recent "Bump Supper," on the other side of the Atlantic. Its elegant Latinity, like that of its predecessor, speaks for itself...
...Oxford the system of formal espionage by proctors over students in almost all their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however, are easily avoided by the wary. It is less easy to avoid the "bull-dogs," as the body-servants of the proctors are called. But, says the London Graphic, "It has been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors...