Word: caper
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Percy Hammond: "A fleet caper, built for speed rather than luxury . . . containing velocity, sugary music, pretty girls in chemises and out of them, funny burlesques...
MENU of today's Table d'hote dinner at the French Restaurant, 3 Linden Street, from 12 to 2.30 and 6 to 7 p. m.: 50 ets. Soup: Puree of peas aux croutons. Fish: Saumom en Coquille. Joints: Roast Beef, Boiled Lamb, Caper Sauce. Entree: Mirronton de boeuf aux onions. Vegetables; Carrots a la Creme. Potatoes. Dessert: Indian Pudding. Coffee...
...that Gosling does drink to excess, but I say that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that no man ever "drank to excess, in spite of his dislike to liquor, because it was the 'proper caper,'" he shows a surprising lack of knowledge of human nature. It is natural for a man to do what the man whom he admires does. Human nature is much the same in Harvard College as it is in the world at large, and the only reason why the Harvard Gosling...
That any one who knows much of college men and college manners seriously believes this is true, I doubt. Who ever heard of a man who, in spite of his dislike to liquor, drank to excess because he heard it was the "proper caper"? A great many hard things have been charged against the Harvard undergraduate; but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that he has been accused of imbecility...