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...learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees of Terpsichore of course know what that is, and so you'll pardon me if I don't go into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang, as it has survived the ravages of time for twenty years, and Prof. Dale says it's the correct thing - but I digress. Our proctor, in his endeavors to master the intricacies ("intricacies" is good) of this new freak of nature - I mean the dance, not the proctor, - jumps over tables...
...curious illustration of the unstability of all things collegiate as well as worldly, is furnished by the ease of the slang term "James," once in vigorous use at Harvard. but now fallen into complete desuetude. Only two years ago, it was a a common designation for what is now familiarly termed the "Gym." The pun was too ghostly for long life...
...Classic Slang - Frigidus dies when I get sinistrum. Quinquagesima sestertii all around. Non ad novus, justus-don't be afraid we won't say it, but you must remember that when Latin was spoken, jokes of this kind must have been comparatively...
...there was scarcely a serious bit of writing in it. Now, the young men with journalistic talent send their contributions to such papers as the Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard...
...students are very kind to the annex girls, and take them to the theatre and Germans and sleighing-parties; it must be awful sweet - for the girls, because I have a friend in Boston who says that annex girls are terribly quiet and wear green glasses and never use slang, - she says they wouldn't chew gum for anything in the world, but I don't believe that. But don't they really use slang? Now I don't either, but Dinkie Karamel (who goes to Lasell), says that one can't get along without it; she says that...