1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 43: Blow-out, a supper, spread, convivial entertainment, especially a society celebration.at blow-out, n.1
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 43: Bum, a spree, society supper, or convivial entertainment of any sort, innocent or otherwise. Used also as a verb; whence is derived bummer, a fast young man, a fellow who bums.at bum, n.4
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 527: It is seldom that a Yale man, while ‘on a bum,’ so far loses his wits as to be unable to reach his room unassisted and instances of arrest by the police of drunken students are almost unheard of.at on a/the bum under bum, n.4
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 43: Bum, a spree, society supper, or convivial entertainment of any sort, innocent or otherwise. Used also as a verb; whence is derived bummer, a fast young man, a fellow who bums.at bum, v.4
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 43: Bum, a spree, society supper, or convivial entertainment of any sort, innocent or otherwise. Used also as a verb; whence is derived bummer, a fast young man, a fellow who bums. [Ibid.] 527: The number even of moderate ‘bummers’ – who perhaps ‘get tight’ once or twice a year, at the time of a society supper or some special celebration – is comparatively small.at bummer, n.2
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 45: Hewgag, a what-d’ye-call-it, a thingumbob.at what-d’you-call-it, n.
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 43: Chum, a roommate or particular friend [...] Chum is used also as a verb.at chum, v.
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 46: Roots, tricks. Used only in the phrase, to ‘come the roots over’ a person, that is, to get the better of him by some trick or deceit.at come the roots over (v.) under come the..., v.
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 702: He is less to be pitied than the one who goes through the four years, digging and grinding for a stand, existing all unconscious of the peculiar and delightful life about him, and graduating in as utter ignorance of its philosophy.at dig, v.1
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 44: Dog, style, splurge. To put on dog, is to make a flashy display, to cut a swell.at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 44: Ear, dignity, hauteur, self-importance. A man somewhat offended or indignant is said to be on his ear, or eary.at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 44: Fizzle, partial failure on recitation. Flunk, an entire failure. Both these words are also used as verbs.at fizzle, v.2
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 631: So, too, a good scholar may help a poor one [...] by swapping papers with him, though by doing it he ensures for himself a fizzle instead of a rush.at fizzle, n.2
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 44: Fizzle, partial failure on recitation. Flunk, an entire failure. Both these words are also used as verbs. [Ibid.] 622: Hence, a man may skin out a whole recitation without getting any advantage from it, or sometimes may make a dead flunk instead of a rush, by reason of the instructor’s ‘skipping’ a little, and calling him up in advance of the place to which he had skinned.at flunk, n.1
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 702: He is less to be pitied than the one who goes through the four years, digging and grinding for a stand, existing all unconscious of the peculiar and delightful life about him, and graduating in as utter ignorance of its philosophy.at grind, v.
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 45: Grind, a hard and unpleasant task, an imposition, a swindle.at grind, n.
1871 L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 45: Healthy and heavy, are used as sarcastically complimentary epithets.at heavy, adj.