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...Plato may lie in the corner, folly in laughter he'd find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS-DAY-HARVARD-1873. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...May our Heavenly Father bless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE HYMN. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...Students in the Medical School, who wish to avail themselves of this opportunity of pursuing scientific or other studies in any other Faculty of the University, may do so without loss of time counted as medical study, to such extent and in such manner as the Medical Faculty shall in each case prescribe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...first half-year after entering a university he is termed a "fox," which is equivalent to our "Freshman." Why he should be thus called is not easy to say, as he is not at this time supposed to be possessed of any of Reynard's characteristics, unless it may be his love for chicken. In the latter part of the last century the word "fishing" was exactly equivalent to "toadying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...appropriate than the ones with which they were christened. Nearly every man in college has some word given him by his classmates which fits him better than it would any one else, generally taking its origin from some real or imagined foible. If he inclines to excessive eating, he may be dubbed "knight of the carving-knife," and for short, "knight." Does he manifest a tendency for long calls and annoying affection for your cigarettes, his sobriquet will be "Fig"; if he persists, "the Fig." These epithets convey more meaning than is at first apparent; they are indications of certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »