Présentation de l'éditeur
The first edition of this publication was mostly compiled during the leisure hours of the last half-year of a Senior's collegiate life, and was presented anonymously to the public.
PREFACE. THE Editor has an indistinct recollection of a sheet of foolscap paper, 011 one side of which was written, perhaps a year and a half ago, a list of twenty or thirty college phrases, followed by the euphonious titles of " Yale Coil.," "Harvard ColI." Next he calls to mind two bluepcovered books, turned from their original use, as receptacles of Latin and Greek exercises, containing explanations of these and many other phrases. His friends heard that he was hunting up odd words and queer customs, and dubbed him "Antiquarian," but in a kindly manner, spared his feelings, and did not put the vinegar "old" before it. Two and one half quires of paper vere in time covered with a strange medley, an olla.podrida of student peculiarities. Thus did he amuse himself in his leisure hours, something like one who, as Dryden says, "is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words." By and by he heard a wish here and a wish there, whether real or otherwise he does...
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