Word: feast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that college. It has always been a custom at Cornell for the sophs to prevent the freshmen from holding their annual banquet. Force has been tried hitherto, and as a result men have been suspended. A week ago the freshmen had caused a slight interruption to the '86 feast, and the latter class determined on revenge. A class meeting was held and a committee given full powers to outwith the freshmen. '86 determined to be sharp and use their wits...
...alterations the routine of life at Girton is very much the same as in all the ladies' colleges. The hours of refection are much the same as in all homes. Breakfast, after prayers at eight, goes on from a quarter-past eight to nine. Luncheon is a movable feast from twelve to three. The dinner hour is six. There is tea at four, and again at nine in the evening. The lectures are generally given in the afternoon. There is a reading-room, with use of pianos. The students may invite friends to lunch or dinner, but these friends must...
Table 31 at Memorial celebrated their last dinner of the term by a farewell feast last evening. The table was elaborately decorated,-likewise the waiter. The cuisine was taxed to its utmost, and the result was highly satisfactory, there being a display of edibles which caused the mouths of many less favored boarders to water. Last of all the fatted pig, roasted entire, was brought on and served to the banqueters...
...decided to have an annual feast sometime during January, which it is intended shall be a grand affair, to which President Eliot, the Harvard Glee Club and prominent men of the nation will be invited. - [Chicago Tribune...
...sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors and harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band...