Word: vade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR young friends, (for you are the Crimson's friends, are n't you?) we wish at once to take you in, in the kindly and Samaritan sense of the phrase, - to be meat and drink, board and lodging, to you; to be your "guide, philosopher, and friend," your vade mecum. I offer you a few suggestions, - suggestions merely; for the editors of the Crimson are too intelligent and gentlemanly a body not to be alive to the fact that a Freshman knows everything, and that it would be decidedly presumptuous for any one who has passed one or more...
...Virginia University Magazine has an article entitled "A Vade-M cum for Lovers" which is quite cleverly done. The author particularly recommends indirect and delicate flattery, and cites the following (!) as an example...