Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directors remained together four hours in one day and then handed in a report to their constituents covering half a page of foolscap. He had been many times behind that mystery-hiding screen and could tell, if he would, why it takes fifteen minutes to get a cup of coffee and two minutes to have a steak and fried potatoes cooked to order. He might also explain why it is that, although the students have full power, yet they cannot add pickles to the bill of fare without consulting a body of men known as the corporation, who have invariably...
...sight seem foolish, and yet those who profess to know, declare that even these are by no means insuperable difficulties, and have assured us that each successive crew was better than that of the preceding year. As yet we have accomplished little. To be sure, we have the Childs cup, but no great honor came with its acquisition. It remains for us, now that we have it in our possession. to keep it, and that we are trying our best to do this year. The crew consists of Howell, '83, stroke; Bird, '85, No. 3; Jennison, '83, No. 2; Baker...
...regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom is for men to enter the sports without practice and to make a record worthy of a juvenile athletic association. Here are several grand opportunities of securing with firmer hold the collegiate championship cup. Let the new athletes think upon it and enter this spring, if only as an experiment. Neither of these events require much practice in comparison with those more in vogue, and they receive an equal reward...
...resolution expressing regret at the "drink" passages in his new song. "My father begs to thank the committee," the son writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been otherwise understood...
...contrary making himself an object of pity, more good would be wrought than the best framed pledges and societies could hope for." It is notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life in as far as relates to pleasures of the cup. But intemperance, we rest assured, has always been as emphatically condemned by the college community as could be desired by the most ardent prohibitionist. That there has of late years been an observable tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case...