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...Monday World, whose "College Chronicle" is always interesting, a summary of students' votes for President is given, - 48 colleges - 13 in New England, 20 in the Middle States, 6 in the South, 9 in the West - give a total vote...
...apple-blossom, - and shook her head; but as she passed me that night in the corridor, she dropped this little glove into my hand, and - well - she went away the next day, and -" He told me once, by the way, that she married a wealthy pork-packer out West somewhere...
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What we call a flunk or a dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...
...Harvard we don't haze Freshmen any more, but at West Point they still devil a Pleb., and at Brown they soap the neophyte, - perhaps because he needs...