Word: slang
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...vigorous crusade has been set on foot lately, against that outgrowth of young Americanism, "slang," which has crept even into busy Lasell, and, strange to say, has seemed to find congenial soil, for it has flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with...
...hoot" is the last Williams slang for a toot, howl, or bust...
...party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential feature. The illustrations, especially those giving views of well-known places, are good; among the others we notice several by Dore, which have appeared in other works, we believe, and give additional value to this book...
...customary undergraduate abbreviation of 'gym.,' as applied to such a structure, has been expanded to 'James' by the Harvard Echo, whose frequent use of the word would seem to indicate its assured position in the slang of the College...
Some curious things may be learned by any one who will take the trouble to think a little about slang like this, - slang of the better kind, not that of the streets, - and it is a pity that some student of philology has not taken up the subject of slangology with care. I think he would be well rewarded...