Word: wail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...maximum ability is, in a way, in the position of a monopolist, and can get his own prices. A man comes to him and cries; "Oh, Mr. Snodkins, tutor me and get me through,-get me through, remember,"-and I will pay you almost any sum. This is the wail of the sinking student. It may be, he is going down for the third time. His tutor reached down his arms and, we will at least hope, rescues him. At all events, either he comes from the examination with the cry of "saved !" on his lips, or his name...
...denouncing the "mucker" nuisance. Nor. is it alone at Cambridge and New Haven, but at every college town of any considerable size these little nuisances seem to make their baneful presence felt. We can heartily join with the Yale Record when it breaks fourth in the following wail...
...listens to the nightsome wail...
...wail goes up from Columbia over the disheartening showing made thus far by their university crew. Not only are all the candidates entirely new men in a university shell, but several of them have never rowed before. In addition the men are very light, avenging only 156 lbs. Professor Goodwin, their coach, thinks nevertheless, that they will give our crew a hard rub when the race comes in June. Not so the students. Their dismal foreboding are given in the following extract from one of the Columbia papers...
...important contribution to the literature of the subject has the seemingly innocent title "jottings from the journal of an A. B." But instead of this article being a sort of second edition of the lucubration's of Mr. Robert Grant's "Frivolous Girl," it is in reality a plaintive wail sent forth into the world by an almost despairing alumna-we suppose we must call her-of the Poughkeepsie institution of learning...