Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen played their first game on Holmes field on Fast Day with the Beacons. The Beacons appeared without several of their men, but nevertheless played a good game. Mr. Coolidge of the 'Varsity Nine covered second base for the Beacons. The freshmen played a very weak game in the first inning, but improved as the game advanced. Richardson and Welch did the best work for the Beacons. Nichols and Chamberlain led in batting, and Bruner and Nichols in fielding. Following is the score...
...Finance Club, on "Fire as a Factor in our National Taxation." The lecturer began by describing the difference between the stock system of insurance and the mutual system, showing clearly the advantages derived from the latter. In fact the mutual companies are so manifestly superior that they are fast supplanting the stock companies...
...negatives by fire would come forward at once and furnish other sittings. A number have done so, but there are a few from whom the committee has not yet heard. We cannot urge these men too strongly to make appointments at the studio at once, for the time is fast passing in which the athletes and views must be taken. All who have made sittings and are satisfied with pictures thus far secured, will please make known the same at the studio at their earliest possible convenience. If they wish to sit again, let them do so at once...
...meat was roasted, and to them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went always two potatoes. When boiling days came round pudding and cabbage, wild peas and dandelions were added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter cans, which were passed from mouth to mouth, and when emptied were again replenished. For supper there was a bowl of milk and a size of bread. The hungry Oliver who wished for more...
...cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character," he continues, "is formed largely by standing up manfully during his preparatory days. Ten years after leaving college it will be found that the dissipated ones are fast sinking into early graves." After this warning Mr. Cook goes to point out the thoughts and motives a college man should keep before him. "When a man becomes a junior or a senior he begins to think seriously of the profession which he shall adopt. The first thing he should...