Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter among medical hats...
...Wells arrived at the gymnasium at 4.49. The first two hounds, C. A. Davenport, '90, and Dana, second by a few yards, arrived only ten minutes after the hares, and therefore won the run. The course was round Beacon Park, through the grounds of the Hawthorn to the Brighton slaughter houses, then by the west end of Mt. Auburn round Fresh Pond home. The brake was made at the corner of Brattle and Fairweather streets...
...close by him on the left, with a blunt sword in his hand. Between the two, but at a safe distance, stands the umpire. Just behind is an attendant with a basin of water, a sponge, and a chair, while the doctors hover round the group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures...
...almost too strong throughout. It glows with Oriental savagery and splendor; but although the story is a very powerful, - well, tremendously powerful - one, it is rather too highly spiced for the average reader. The writer of "Alexis" has recently been censured for his penchant for slaughter; but it is to Mr. Bruce's lust for gore and rapine as the gentle zephyr is to the hurricane...
...existence a la freshman, are occasionally relieved by glimpses of future liberation. '85 had some, '86 has more. The feudal period of college is dead; its course deserves prominent interment among the long buried remains of other fossilized oppressions. The common interpretation of class loyalism has ceased to be slaughter and death to those unfortunates who date their graduation in subsequent years; university lords of one term's standing have ceased to regard classless refugees of no standing whatever, as the legitimate victims of their varied and erratic humours. The wingless elements no longer look upon the winged with irreverence...