Word: chestnut
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...shingle is grand. On a field (blanc), seme with cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device is found a chestnut (brun), which is bound with chains, evidently to prevent its being given away. The colors employed exhaust the resources of the spectrum, and makes this coat of arms rival the traditional coat of Joseph...
...following is a true occurrence in U. 5: Dean, "Why were you absent on this date?" '89, "I had a severe cold." Dean, "and on this date?" '89, "Indigestion." Rear man in the line, speaking up good and loud, "Chestnut!" General collapse...
...ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory...
...recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request and have recognized its force. Then there is the conference committee. The advice of Demosthenes would be a good new year's resolution for this body - "action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method of grading students. For the students at large we would offer as a motto...
...Chestnut No. 5. "The Harvard men use the cage for practising tennis, as well as base-ball and lacrosse...