Word: beers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman Reception Committee for this year is about to undertake their task of extending courtesy and cordiality from the Senior class to the Freshmen in a way different from former years. Instead of the regulation Freshman "beer nights" at which from ten to twenty new students were invited by one of the committee to meet a few upper classmen in his room, it is proposed to have each number of the present committee call on a small number of Freshmen in their rooms and to make their acquaintance as well as possible by a short call. After which, the Senior...
...least one benefit to be derived from the present plan is the abolition of the phrase "Freshman beer night." To the uninitiated and innocent outsider, there words are assumed to mean monstrous things and the use of the words together to the imaginative mind denotes all manner of treacherous pitfalls and what not for the innocent Freshmen. To those who have experienced the peacefulness of these affairs, such conjectures are highly humorous; still, it is a good thing to have the phrase dropped from our colloquial vocabulary...
Instead of having small beer nights for 15 or 20 men as in former years it was decided that this year each member of the committee will first call on the Freshmen at their rooms, and later invite them to his room to meet a few of their class-mates. After they have become acquainted with each other from the small meetings, several of the committee will combine to make the gatherings larger...
...lecture room of the Fogg Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Southern Palestine" and he will describe a trip through the wildest part of the country along the West shore of the Dead Sea to the mountain of rock salt, and an expedition to Beer Sheba through the country of the Philistines and nomadic Bedouins...
Another amusing drawing is that of the Freshman beer night. But the best thing in the number is the drawing and the jest "Handicapped." This is the sort of thing that appears once in a long while; the modest author does not sign his sketch, but he is to be congratulated...