Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised to learn that members of the lower classes are either blankly refusing to give up their rooms to seniors for use on next class-day, or are giving them up with a good deal of reluctance. Only freshmen have any excuse for not knowing that it is a time-honored custom for all lower classmen to yield their rooms to seniors for class-day, of all the days in the year, the seniors day; and, if nothing else, it is at least a courtesy for all others to give way to them at that time...
Wanted. - The use of a 52 or 54 inch bicycle, for one month. Call at or address, 8 Thayer...
...microscopes to supply the demand. It is a great disappointment, to all of the unsuccessful applicants, and it would appear that they are suffering under unavoidable injustice. If our treasury were receiving anything beside unpaid bills, we might feel like donating a few hundred dollars to the college for use in purchasing microscopes, but under the present conditions, we can only extend our sympathy to the unfortunates, and plead their cause among our richer, but not more generously disposed, neighbors...
...would be impossible to enumerate even a small portion of the cant slang words in use, for every college has a dialect of its own, and a small dictionary would be required to contain the most common. Some persons claim that they can tell from what college a man hails by the slang he uses...
...rowing pretty well together and the stroke which they row is well adapted to the crew. It must be remembered, however, that Yale has a heavy and powerful crew, and that it is precisely the same as their '84 crew; and the stroke which they use is the same as last year's. The Columbia crew averages slightly heavier than ours; it has four old 'varsity oars, and three men of last year's victorious freshman crew. The stroke which Columbia rows is long and steady, with a sharp, quick recover. Their crew has been at New London since June...