Excerpt: ...of July occurring just afterwards, which I celebrated by a "hang-out."-Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 80. He had kept me six hours at table, on the occasion of a dinner which he gave ... as an appendix to and a return for some of my "hangings-out."-Ibid., p. 198. HANG OUT. To treat, to live, to have or possess. Among English Cantabs, a verb of all-work.-Bristed. There were but few pensioners who "hung out" servants of their own.-Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 90. I had ...
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Excerpt: ...of July occurring just afterwards, which I celebrated by a "hang-out."-Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 80. He had kept me six hours at table, on the occasion of a dinner which he gave ... as an appendix to and a return for some of my "hangings-out."-Ibid., p. 198. HANG OUT. To treat, to live, to have or possess. Among English Cantabs, a verb of all-work.-Bristed. There were but few pensioners who "hung out" servants of their own.-Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 90. I had become ... a man who knew and "hung out to" clever and pleasant people, and introduced agreeable lions to one another.-Ibid., p. 158. I had gained such a reputation for dinner-giving, that men going to "hang out" sometimes asked me to compose bills of fare for them.-Ibid., p. 195. HARRY SOPHS, or HENRY SOPHISTERS; in reality Harisophs, a corruption of Erisophs (Greek: erisophos, valde eruditus). At Cambridge, England, students who have kept all the terms required for a law act, and hence are ranked as Bachelors of Law by courtesy.-Gradus ad Cantab. See, also, Gentleman's Magazine, 1795, p. 818. HARVARD WASHINGTON CORPS. From a memorandum on a fly leaf of an old Triennial Catalogue, it would appear that a military company was first established among the students of Harvard College about the year 1769, and that its first captain was Mr. William Wetmore, a graduate of the Class of 1770. The motto which it then assumed, and continued to bear through every period of its existence, was, "Tam Marti quam Mercurio." It was called at that time the Marti Mercurian Band. The prescribed uniform was a blue coat, the skirts turned with white, nankeen breeches, white stockings, top-boots, and a cocked hat. This association continued for nearly twenty years from the time of its organization, but the chivalrous spirit which had called it into existence seems at the end of that time to have faded away. The last captain, it is believed, was Mr. Solomon...
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Fair. Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Bartlett, 1856. Revised and enlarged edition, 1856. Encyclopedic reference including both technical and colloquial terms and definitions. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt spien lettering, 508 pages including a list of American colleges. Covers rubbed with chipping to the extremities, good hinges, text block sound but not tight, names on front free endpaper and preliminary blank, pages clean with no other names or markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo, green cloth binding, gilt lettering on backstrip, foxing on top edge of pages, pages are clear, text is clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN:
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Hbk. 508pp. 8vo brown embossed cloth with gilt spine titles includes college slang used at Harvard, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Yale, Trinity, Williams, Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, Hamilton, Middlebury, University of Vermont, Virginia, Oxford, Cambridge, and Eton wear at edges, especially at the edges of the spine and the corners) and some slight loosening of pages otherwise a very good clean unmarked copy now in acetate jacket although this title has been recently reprinted, it is increasingly scarce in the original photos and provenance on request.