Word: vulgarisms
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...unfortunate Californian, named Dorn, seems to furnish great amusement to the OEstrus, which gets off three poor jokes on him in the last number. The least vulgar and most brilliant (?) of these is: "Dorn says he has just found out that he is a D. P., - Dorn Phule...
...there is one thing more than another which I despise in a woman it is flirting. In a man it is more pardonable, for there is no illusion hanging around him to be spoiled by the vulgar reality of flirting ; . . . . he is just the kind of being you would expect to de scend to the vulgarity of flirting. . . . . But a woman ! as a woman she seems something divine," etc, etc., ad infinitum. The character of the gentleman, who says he is twenty-eight, but who, from strong internal evidence, is barely eighteen, may further be understood from the following remark...
...last issue of the Courant contains two full-page illustrations of the boat-races at Yale. Perspective is unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than...
...entering college the Freshman was subjected to hazing of a kind which, although it is dying out here at Harvard, is still practised in many other colleges. At first badgered to try his mettle, the Freshman, if very fresh, was subjected to mere vulgar banter; but if he showed any quickness at repartee, he was tried by all the resources of student wit, and finally subjected to the pump...
...shall not quarrel, for we read that "scuffling, noisy sports, and disorderly company" (whatever that may be) are at all times strictly prohibited. Drury is even ahead of Dartmouth in the way of reforming college morals. To quote again from the rules: "Students must wholly abstain from all profane, vulgar, or unbecoming language. They must not use any intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor go to any billiard or bowling saloon...