Word: cake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie May, and "A Dissolving view of Carrick Meagher" by George H. Jessop. Bliss Carman, a recent graduate of Harvard contributes a long poem on "Death in April...
TAKEN from cross-bar of scales in gym a soap-box containing a half-used cake of Pears' soap. Please leave with janitor...
...which the whole college is ridiculed. A strange lack of sense was manifested in the reception of the Sodality. No unnecessary introductions took place. They were served, after a long and freezing ride from Cambridge, with "coffee which they drank because it was hot and they were cold," and cake from the effects of which, as the CRIMSON declares, some of them gave their last gasp and expired. They complain of being stared at as if they were statuettes, but how could we help regarding them, in our anger and pity at their aimless misery? It was no vulgar curiosity...
...were thinking with pleasure of the bot little spread that would surely be ready for them when they got to Wellesley. The college was reached shortly after seven o'clock and the men were conducted to a lower floor of the building where they were served with coffee and cake. They eyed the coffee a while and then drank it because it was hot and they were cold. It was rumored that the cake was made by the fair collegians and so the men ate it out of courtesy. Some of them were missing Tuesday. They were probably whiling away...
...physician, and then in a sober and private manner." What a deal of pleasure the students of that day must have lost, deprived as they were of unlimited "smokes." The origin of class day can be traced back to the fondness of those early students for plum cake. Very soon in the history of the college, the students gave the authorities much trouble at commencement time. "A peculiarity of the festivities at that time was the fondness of the young men for plum cake, and from this apparently originated the 'spreads' of future years." The authorities disapproved of this...