Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tutors in those days had the privilege of "boxing," as it was called, that is of cuffing men on the side of the head for some petty misdemeanor; and we are told that they improved every opportunity in this direction. Flogging was in vogue then and was personally attended to by the president; it was not until 1735 that corporeal punishment began to go into disuse. "When flogging was resorted to, the occasion was always one of great solemnity." The president and fellows, tutors and students assembled in the library; the sentence was read in their presence and the offender...
...particular irregularity. A student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college, shall make use of any distilled spirits or of any such mixed drinks as punch or flip, in entertaining one another or strangers." Students were also forbidden to have liquors in their rooms, cut "lead off from Old College...
...said, taking us forward; "when a man comes on board he is measured, weighed and examined; if he is sick, he is put in here and cured." "What is this pen?" asked the "professor." "That's a 'jug'" answered the middy evasively, and then further explained that one large misdemeanor - such as smuggling whiskey on board - or five small ones, - such as profanity or disrespect to officers, - were punished by three days in the "jug." Having explained the working of the capstan, he conducted us to the rear of the boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected...
...Woods, a prominent clergyman of the day, who lived in Boscawen, and prepared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
...colleges," and then he naively remarks in the happiest vein, "we also cheerfully admit that this conduct is discourteous and unjustifiable." His remedy for our practice of "putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both...