Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THAT was a very neat compliment that the last Advocate paid the Class of '80. As is usual in such cases, those who are the least known for "honest work" are proudest of the compliment...
...recall a classmate of mine, whose story will point my moral. Buckeye was a native of Porkopolis, and belonged to one of the proudest of those old families who boast that they have been pork-packers since the century began. Now, Buckeye, with his wealth and connections, might have taken a first place in the social world at Neophogen, and afterwards in the great world. But the foolish fellow threw away his chances. To use rather a vulgar phrase, he never took account of stock; and, when he might have had the best, he was quite as likely, through sheer...