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Harvard Register Aug. 172: My fellow-students had been engaged at a ‘blow’.at blow, n.3
Harvard Register Aug. 172: My fellow-students had been engaged at a ‘blow’. Harvard Register Oct. 247: He who desires to be a big-Bug, rattling in a natty gig, / No-top, or chaise, or tandem.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
Harvard Register in (1856) 247: Another, in his study chair, / Digs up Greek roots with learned care, — / Unpalatable eating.at dig, v.1
Harvard Register Sept. 194: I’ll tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits [...] and stick to the law, Tom, without a Poney.at pony, n.
Harvard Register in (1856) 378: One must experience all the stammering and stuttering, the unending doubtings and guessings, to understand fully the power of a mathematical screw.at screw, n.1
Yale Banger 10 Nov. in (1856) 202: The best judges have decided, that to get just one third of the meaning right constitutes a perfect fizzle.at fizzle, n.2
Yale Banger 10 Nov. in (1856) 205: This, 0, Tutor H— said meant a perfect flunk.at flunk, n.1
Yale Banger 10 Nov. in (1856) 375: But take a peep with us, dear reader, into that sanctum sanctorum, that skull and bones of college mysteries, the Prex’s room.at prexy, n.
Yale Banger 22 Oct. in (1856) 203: My dignity is outraged at beholding those who fizzle and flunk in my presence tower above me.at fizzle, v.2
Yale Banger 22 Oct. in (1856) 203: My dignity is outraged at beholding those who fizzle and flunk in my presence tower above me.at flunk, v.
Yale Banger 22 Oct. n.p.: In dreams his many rushes heard [DA].at rush, n.
Yale Gallinipper Nov. in (1856) 30: Each jolly soul of them, save the blues, / Were doffing their coats, vests, pants, and shoes.at blue, n.1
Yale Banger 23 Oct. n.p.: Then for the students mark flunks, even though the young men may be rushing [DA].at rush, v.
Yale Banger 6 Nov. in (1856) 34: When Boot-lick hypocrites upraised their might.at bootlick, n.
Yale Tomahawk Nov. in (1856) 385: The meeting will be opened with razors by the Society’s jester.at razor, n.1
Yale Tomahawk Nov. in (1856) 407: But we are ‘seeds,’ whose rowdy deeds / Make up the drunken tale.at seed, n.
Yale Battery Feb. in (1856) 408: A seedy Soph beneath a tree.at seedy, adj.
Yale Battery 14 Feb. in (1856) 35: Then he arose, and offered himself as a ‘boot lick’, to the Faculty.at bootlick, n.
Poem before the Iadma of Harvard College in (1856) 141: For many weeks he ‘crams’ him, — daily does he rehearse.at cram, v.
Poem before the Iadma of Harvard College in (1856) 12: I must say ’t is a grind — (perchance I spoke too loud).at grind, n.
Poem before the Iadma of Harvard College in (1856) 7: Hast ta’en a ‘smile’ at Brigham’s.at smile, n.1
College Words 51: Coffin. At the University of Vermont, a boot, especially a large one [DA].at coffin, n.1
College Words 90: Cut. An omission of a recitation [...] 147: Cuts. When a class for any reason become dissatisfied with one of the Faculty, they absent themselves from his recitation, as an expression of their feelings [DA].at cut, n.1
Yale Tomahawk Feb. n.p. : The all receiving shop of some dealer in old junk.at junk, n.1
‘The Burial of Euclid by the [Yale] Class of ’57’ sung 8 Nov. in College Words 45: Come, gather all ye tearful Sophs, / And stand around the ring.at soph, n.
Burlington Sentinel in (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] a passenger in the Cape Ann stage.at passenger on the Cape Ann stage, to be a, v.
Burlington Sentinel in (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] all sails set.at all sails set, adj.
College Words (rev. edn) 19: Ball up, at Middlebury College, to fail at recitation of examination.at ball up, v.
Burlington Sentinel in (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] bamboozled.at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
College Words (rev. edn) 15: barney. At Harvard College, about the year 1810, this word was used to designate a bad recitation.at barney, n.1
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