Word: deviled
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...Harvard we don't haze Freshmen any more, but at West Point they still devil a Pleb., and at Brown they soap the neophyte, - perhaps because he needs...
There were also two men dressed in white that excited my curiosity. One of them, I was told, imagined, curiously enough, that good manners had died out at Yale, and that he was the Ghost of Manners! The other imagined himself the devil, and had on a sign, "The Devil is More often White than He is Painted." His capitals were peculiar, but the idea was good...
...Princetonian and the Beloit Round Table amuse themselves with speculations on - the Devil! College papers have long enjoyed publishing three-column biographies and criticisms of famous authors, and it is not unnatural that the author of all evil should have his place in their pages; perhaps it is nothing new, either...
...Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance. Now, I must say farewell, for 't is nine o' the clock, and we retire regularly at this hour...
...they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever since resided in the western portion of Long Island...