Word: bacchus
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...dudes twirling canes and adjusting eyeglasses." The whole drama is very good reading indeed-to Dartmouth Men. The personal "grinds" in the "Aegis" are almost without number. "Nominibus onusis" here are some of them, "-, 'asinus asinorum'; -, 'I had rather tell ten lies than say a word of truth' -, 'Great Bacchus is my deity." These grinds are doubtless the soul of Dartmouth wit. We may well pity the subjects of them...
...Odes to Bacchus with beery tang...
...Bacchus soon shall lull your sorrow...
...table-talk, appearing with every issue, and fancifully named "Limon," are many interesting anecdotes and old-fashioned witticisms. "The usual time of the year in which the Roman youth assumed the toga virilis, or man's apparel," says the writer, "was when they first attended the feasts of Bacchus. Do the youth of modern days never attend the feasts of Bacchus before they have assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less the insect...
...story is told in the Harvard Lyceum (1810) of a debate on the question whether an "intemperate use of tobacco or of ardent liquors were the more pernicious?" After a long and acrimonious dispute, the votary of Bacchus gained the victory by adducing the testimony of Scripture in support of his assertions : "Are we not told," said he, "that 'it is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth a man, but that which cometh out of his mouth, this defileth...