A good recitation. College slang.
1860. Take the word cramming, and, with the rest of its family, rush, fizzle, flunk, and pony, it tells at once the secret of College life.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxv. 143 (Feb.).
1860. What a racing through the whole lesson to catch some cue that will enable colloquy men to save an inglorious fizzle, and philosophicals to make a triumphant rush.… When we leave College nobody will care whether on a particular day we rushed, fizzled or flunked.—Id., 399–400, 403 (Aug.).
1862. If they rush as well in their lessons as they do in front of the Gymnasium, their marks will be very high.—Id., xxviii. 37 (Oct.). (Italics in the original.)
1866. Peters told him that good scholars were looked upon here as mere rush-lights.—Id., xxxi. 229 (April).
