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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known that young men, when without proper supervision and direction, disregard the most elementary rules of hygiene. They bathe and exercise directly after eating; and, especially, they eat directly after exercising. Now it is to prevent, as far as may be, this latter injurious habit that the Gymnasium is closed at 5.30; for most of the men who exercise there board at Memorial Hall, where the dinner hour is from 5.30 to 6.30. If, therefore, the Gymnasium were kept open till six, those who stayed until that time would have to rush straight from their exercise to their dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYMNASIUM. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

GAIETY THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. For the rest of this week Barlow, Wilson, & Co.'s Minstrels in "All-I've-eat." Next week, revival of "Olivette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...that is called Sof om oar array himself in purple and fine linen, and, with a face shining as the sun, save where it is marred by a hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they set up their tabernacles, - and lo, the maiden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO AND DO THOU NOT LIKEWISE. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...Eat, drink, and be merry, my future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

Rivalling his great exemplar, he became a dig. He refused to countenance any such Freshman immoralities as beer and cigarettes; he would not even eat peanuts in Latin recitations. He never cut prayers, or said, "Not prepared." But yet, in spite of his noble character and many excellences, no handsome and popular upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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