Word: willes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The entrances to the Yard will be between Harvard Hall and Massachusetts, Grays and Weld, Thayer and Holworthy, and no one will be admitted at any other place.
From the close of the exercises at the Tree until 9 the President will receive the Class and their friends at his house.
No person will be admitted to the Chapel (before the Class), or to the exercises at the Tree, without a reserved seat; and no gentleman to Massachusetts Hall, the President's Reception, or the Yard in the evening, without a ticket.
What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it...
I might extend this piece indefinitely by showing synonymous expressions for words now in use here, such as "nuts," equivalent to "scrub," "mossy heads" to "senior," "cad" to "snob," "busky" to "sprung," "suck" to "crib"; but enough has been given. Even the tutors and professors are not exempted from nicknames...