Word: poker
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...swear off poker, pay my debts...
...poker...
...most prominent of the smaller colleges, a student was recently expelled for playing the game of poker; an offence of which cognizance is rarely taken, even at juvenile schools. At the same college, billiards, card-playing of any kind, and smoking are either strictly prohibited, or their practice must be carried on with secrecy. Not content with these stringent rules for protecting the virtue of the "men" under their charge, the Faculty have forbidden students going to the neighboring town without giving a satisfactory reason, and obtaining permission to do so. If the students to whom these rules apply...
Days, during the Freshman year, are spent in doing nothing in a "gentlemanly" way, i.e. in smoking, talking small gossip, and playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will...
...heinous sin of Sabbath-breaking, which appears to be startlingly prevalent in New Haven. It appears that the students at first fell from grace by yielding to the temptation to rest on Saturday and to study on Sunday. The "conscience, stretched by this relaxation," soon permitted others, and "whist, poker, and Sunday-evening visits to Temple Street" - whatever that may mean - soon became common. These sins, horrible as they were, affected only the sinners, but at length, hardened by their vicious habits into a callous disregard of the feelings of their neighbors, the Sabbath-breakers began to sing and play...