Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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COCOA-COCOA-THETA-THETA OF YE GODS.- Cocoa for ye gods will be served hot and free to all callers on Monday and Tuesday, 23d and 24th, at J. F. Merrill's store, Harvard Square. The drink served on this occasion will be made from Wilbur's famous Cocoa-Theta, the finest instantaneous powdered chocolate manufactured. H. O. Wilbur and Sons, sole manufacturers, Philadelphia. All are invited to come and partake...
...good wages for a game. And do you know, the women think foot-ball is a great thing. If there is a match on Saturday afternoon, they can get their husbands to go, and then they are not spending their week's wages in drink. They can only spend the six-pence it costs to see the game...
...even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations are fully reached. The young fellows who wish to be at all prominent in the social life of the University town, join the famous "Corps" which are secret organizations formed for the avowed purpose of dueling and drinking...
Last Monday night, according to the improved custom, was celebrated by a large minority of the members of this University in a way that perhaps was highly satisfactory to their desire for "free drink." Thus the college year was opened under auspices of which every true son of Harvard must feel intensely proud, for in the orgy of that interesting evening he must see a thoughtful devotion to the good name which Harvard has hitherto possessed, arguing well for the glory of her future...
...mistake the office for a bear garden, nor Wadsworth for an ice-house. Let him not despise the in offensive cigarette and sicken upon the masculine bulldog. Let him not drink too much lemonade, nor think a remorse should be worn conspicuously. Let him not drag about a stick he can't carry for two consecutive minutes. Let him not play the drum at midnight, nor boast of wild feats he never attempted, nor attempt wild feats he can never perform. Little boys should be seen and not heard, and not seen too much either...