Word: yanker
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...Pick Nick." A New Jersey merchant's son who did his childhood prattling in Greek, Murray Butler wasted no time. Graduating from high school at 13, he entered Columbia three years later, soon became its biggest undergraduate "bun-yanker" (honor-grabber). At 20 he graduated as top man in his class, at 21 acquired his M.A., at 22 his Ph.D. He promptly became a Columbia teacher and founded Teachers College in his spare time...
...part was added to the college lands in 1786. A prominent graduate of the class of 1821 who has lately died, speaks of the Delta, in a book of recollections as a place where "Turkey Shooting," a very popular pastime, was engaged in by the under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes...