Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some they whip, and some they hang...
Some they whip, some they hang...
...applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will," and if his lines help out the editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise of her son, and the Century registers a new contributor. C. is taking Phil. I. He breaks forth into an exegesis of Hedonism. The readers...
Putting aside such minor considerations as the personal annoyance caused the students, and the danger of attending services held in a cold chapel, we deny the moral right of the authorities of a college to whip men into chapel when they are unwilling to attend. Men do not come to college to learn how to pray: as a rule, we think, they are quite capable of attending to their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason...
...when we consider that it is the U. of Penn. that has invented this new way of becoming champion oarsmen, it is not so strange after all. The university has simply reached the climax of its boating policy, which policy has always been, first to say 'You can't whip me,' and after being whipped to claim that 'You ca' t do it again...