• Page 297: [...] faith and a clear conscience we gave a game of tiddledywinks as a booby prize. Would you believe it, that one set has started a craze for tiddledywinks among the fraternity men here that actually rivals the cross-word mania.

"Can a book of quotations include Cher, MC Hammer, and 'Get a life'?" by Carlo Rotella

• [...] How does one go from being a kid who naively enjoys leafing through Bartlett's to being the self-appointed avenger who resolves to supersede it? "When I was in my early twenties," Shapiro said, "I was on the tiddlywinks team at MIT, and wasn't very good, but I became the town historian of tiddlywinks." He smiled slightly, to acknowledge how pitch-perfectly dweeby that sounded. "At some point I found the Oxford English Dictionary, and tried to trace the word's origins. The OED said 1894. By then I was a law student at Harvard, a very indifferent one. I spent my time at Widener Library, which had a good collection of books on sports and games. I found a book with an article on tiddlywinks from 1890. Now, I had thought the OED was perfect. I didn't understand. But I sent the new information to them, and they wrote back to say thank you." He went on to find other sports and games references that were earlier than the earliest uses listed in the OED, then moved on to other subjects and other research problems, including quotations.

"A Definite Graduate Responsibility (From the Yale Alumni Weekly)"

• Page 92: He is the best sort of a good fellow; he enlivens every club corner; he is the first to call for a cheer and not the last to aid in every good thing that his University is trying to do. But his great and consuming ambition is to see his col-
• Page 109: lege's name at the head of the sporting page as the winner in everything from tiddlywinks to rowing.

"Clippings"

• HOW WE SHALL SPEND CHRISTMAS EVENING.
  Some will read Shakspeare and Browning ;
  And some read the Bible, methinks ;
  Some will work hard at their duties,
  The rest will play Tiddledy Winks.
  —Brunonian

"Points of View". "Being the letters received by Miss Mary Brown of Vassar, '9-, after a series of visits from her friends."

• In my day the library was a place for study and not for idle jesting. I was horrified to see the girls playing tiddledy winks across the history alcove table. But it did not seem much to disturb the other students present, for two or three were trying to see which of them could come nearest to whistling without making a noise. lean understand how the faculty might have occasion to call across the library to one another, but for the girls to make it such a sportive place is quite inexcusable.

"EDITORIAL"

• Page 278: "If we can't eat we must play. So some of us indulge in the rather extravagant intellectual luxury of chess, and others rush bravely into the tiddledy wink arena, and each set thinks the other is misemploying its time.
  
  From what sad experience we have had with either, we would be inclined to cast our vote for the latter as the better game for the average college man, and we regret the rapid decline which seems to threaten the untimely demise of that once flourishing game.
  
  If intellectual games must be played, and some of us have so much regidity in our intellectual vertebral column that it is very difficult to stoop to anything which is not instructive as well as entertaining, let them at any rate be of a simpler nature than a complicated mathematical problem. The real student will always find his need of diversion best supplied by some speciies of the genus to which belongs the now-rapidly-approaching-extinction Tiddledyy winks."

"The Prophecy Continued"

• 'I tell you, Clyde, you and I always were keen for a little game, now and then. I quit to-night a winner by thirty thousand francs.' 'No, Pat,' said the other, 'we didn't belong to Ninety-three's Tiddledy Winks Club for nothing, did we?'