Word: teething
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their number. Songs are sung in the yard, punch is drank, and then the procession is formed for the alumni dinner, the classes ranking in the order of their graduation, - and it has been happily said that he has the best chance for dinner who has the fewest teeth...
...single beat by the agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store of provisions is being laid in for thirsty souls, and hotel keepers look cheerfully forward to regatta week. But the majority of the people refuse to "enthuse...
...bravely and unconcernedly she has borne it all these years! We give a specimen of the wit of the Register on the subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course...
...shaketh in its boots, and feareth that day when the Charles R. R. R. shall blossom forth in all its wealth of accommodations. The student in the early morn cometh from his prayer meeting in the metropolis and chattereth his teeth and shivereth in the refrigerator car. The company forsooth appreciateth the freshness of his victim and desireth that it shall not spoil...
...casualties are : Three Yale men and three Princeton men killed; four Yale men and seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton, has lost an eye and all his front teeth. The only incident which marred the gaiety of this most enjoyable match was the spoiling of the exquisite dress of a young lady well known in the fashionable world. A Princeton man scattered the brains of a Yale man all over the dress, but his apology was smilingly accepted...