Word: whit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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much disturbance. A procession of boys, arranged in military order and headed by a "captain," used to march on Whit Tuesday with flags and music to a small hill or mount outside of the village, and there collect toll or "salt" from the bystanders and passers by, sometimes getting in this way over $5,000. After deducting a certain amount from this sum to cover expenses, the surplus was handed over to the happy "captain of the school...
...believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete, and most grateful to the college at large. But that these changes recommend the principle of compulsory attendance to the students a whit more, as worthy of support and continuance, is more than doubtful. We do not believe there are any in the college who would favor the establishment of such a system of compulsion if it were not already in rogue, and we think there are really very few who favor...
...than formerly. The utmost exertion will be required for any nine that takes the pennant. It seems quite probable that victory in every game will belong to that nine which works hardest for it. We haven't the least hesitation in saying that Yale's chances are not a whit better than are those of Harvard; that, if anything, Harvard's are more promising. It is impossible, as yet, to prognosticate anything of either Dartmouth or Amherst, as the practice games of the former were the first of ball they bad had this spring, and the latter...
...Whit Waltman, whoop it up about Oscar Wilde...
...surely helps the egg no whit...