Word: cake
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first commencement took place in September, 1642, when Governor Winthrop was president. Immediately difficulties arose over the proper celebration of this event. The Overseers found it necessary to prohibit on this day not only "plum cake but roasted, boiled and baked meats, and pies of any kind." The students were "strictly forbidden to leave their chambers after 9 o'clock," and tutors were provided to watch in each "College," as the buildings were then called...
Yesterday afternoon the fourth University crew struck a cake of ice which tore a hole in the bow and allowed the boat to fill with water. Fortunately the boat was only about 75 feet from land, so all the men were able to get ashore safely after a short but cold ducking...
...view of the recent increase in the use of the Union pool room, the Governing Board has installed a lunch counter in one corner, in connection with the old cigar stand. Sandwiches, milk, coffee, fruit, cake, etc., may be obtained during the day and in the evening until the Union closes for the night...
...real first-class competition the inter-paper relay race took the cake at the Winter Carnival. Of course (and as we all expected) the CRIMSON proved to be too speedy for the jokesters and the literary artists, and maintained its preeminent position in spite of the unfair tactics of its brotherly and sisterly organizations. The Advocate had cold feet and because of the low temperature of the air only its "baby editor" put in appearance. As the "scribes" were barred from competing, because of the excellent training in which their team had indulged, there were only three starters...
...Class Day spreads wonders if the Corporation could have imagined the horrors of lobster salad a la Beck when in 1693 they passed the following vote: "Having been informed that the custom taken up in the College, not used in any other universities (!) for the commencers to have plum-cake, is dishonorable to the College, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to the parents of the Commencers, [the Corporation] do therefore put an end to that custom, and do hereby order that no Commencers, or other scholar, shall have any such cakes in their studies or chambers; and that...