Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students who apply for admission to the University of Mississippi must first swear that they have no firearms about them, and that no person or persons have any in keeping for them...
...teachers "organized" in a grand union, but while they confined themselves to legal means they effected nothing. So the Union teachers proceeded to "boycott" the graduates of the chancellor who had refused to join the union and to swear to its statutes and to pay its assessments...
...twenty-four sections of one chapter. This is in marked contrast to the present spirit which has not excluded the mention of a penalty in connection with any particular irregularity. A student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college, shall make use of any distilled spirits or of any such mixed...
...Freshman coming out of an examination in mathematics was heard to exclaim, "O dear! Thunder! ! Confound it! ! !" Then turning to his companion, be said apologetically, "It does a man good to swear sometimes...
...Vassar girls do not swear. They only...