Word: poppycock
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Society, with their badge pins on their breasts instead of on their neckties, where according to the old tradition they could alone be worn. Explaining this custom and the change, the New Haven News says: "Alongside of it has grown up a system of actions and many ways dubbed 'poppycock' by the college world at large. This found manifestation in many ways, all marked by an assumption of mystery and standoffishness in everything that related to the societies in any way, however distant. Of late years, however, a strong sentiment of opposition to 'poppycock' has been steadily developing. Among undergraduates...
...race. The graduate committee wished to settle the Columbia matter before tackling these other questions. Yale's challenge was sent Oct. 18, and its receipt promptly acknowledged. Yale ought to understand the matter perfectly well, and this action of hers seems to Harvard men a most absurd piece of poppycock. It is a tempest in a tea-pot. - [Boston Globe...