Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scholar shall go into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge, to eat aud drink there, - unless in the presence of his parent or guardian, - without leave from the President, a professor, or tutor, under a penalty not exceeding fifty cents...
...drink, the wandering herd...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...
...sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself up as champion of such an inane course as refusing college aid to such students as "drink, smoke, dance, or play billiards," we are forced to believe that the writer either has an eye to the paper's country subscription-list rather than to the convictions of his own conscience, or else possesses a fund of facile gullibility and eremitical unworldliness which is totally inconsistent with the reputation...
Making a mental note of this new classification of tobacco as an "inebriating drink," I asked him when he graduated...