Word: bobbing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...circumstances which render parental care only a luxury. He has chartered a small, well-appointed sloop yacht, the "Go-lightly" (late the property of Mr. Bouncer, of the Morning News), and will enjoy the society on the cruise of his classmates and friends, Percy Leech and little Bob Tufts. Their cruise will be in such waters as do not interfere with the enjoyment of the labors of Cordon bleu, a legacy of his departed parents...
SECOND SOPHOMORE (who is nothing if not English). O, very well, Bob, very well. It's so English, you know...
...rains, don't it?" said Bob, yawning, and refilling and lighting his "nut-brown pipe," "and I 've taken my shoes off. Turn down the gas, and we can have a quiet chat over the fire, and a 'hot scotch...
...Well, Bob," replied his chum after a pause, "it seems to me you are an example of a class of fellows here to whom, on account of their inactivity and lack of interest in everything after they have got into the societies and clubs, is largely due the defeats which Harvard has been receiving for the last three or four years...
...tell you, Bob, about a week before the College Regatta our men begin to take the interest which should be felt now, and all the time; and until it is felt, Harvard will have to stay in the Convention and be beaten every year. As I said before, the majority of fellows here don't take any interest in athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns...