Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...torchlight uniform of the junior class is to consist of blue and white striped "swallow tailed" coats, with '86 on the back, in large letters; trousers of the same material; and black "stove pipes...
...demonstration made by Harvard to be a good one, one in which all may take part. For these various reasons we regret the action of the C. and H. Club and call upon the students to have pride enough in the procession of Harvard College to refuse the invitation, swallow their disappointment and go with the majority in the Republican ranks, in accordance with the good old custom...
...Yale seems determined in this matter, it rests entirely with the management of our freshmen nine whether or not we are to have the annual contest this year. If the Harvard freshmen are willing to swallow the threats of Yale and yield in a case where they have right on their side, the usual game will be played at New Haven on the twenty-fourth of next month. If, on the contrary, the Harvard freshmen decide that the time has come for a stop to Yale encroachments, the game will probably be abandoned and the Yale freshmen can march...
...most profuse willingness in that regard. Ask the Nihilist over there in the corner when and where he is to speak next on his pet subject, and win his regard for life. Allow the timid-looking old gentleman by the mantelpiece to tell you about co-education, and swallow every mad idea he offers you, and finish him up by asking for his last pamphlet on "A Refutation of the Arguments on the Physical Disability of Women to do Man's Work." Get the stout maiden lady over there without any corsets on to put her autograph in your album...
...fair, when I voted for the handsomest girl there. It isn't so that I voted for myself, and that hateful Hurty Randall only said that because I beat her by one vote. Don't you think that gentlemen ought to wear evening dress at the theatre - I mean swallow-tail; gloves and all that? Now I don't know why, but I know that Cousin Harry doesn't get thirsty so often when he wears full dress. But, dear Mr. Editor, don't you think it is awful to flirt? I never flirt when any one I know...