Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EARNEST aspirants to exhibit their knowledge of the teachings of Messrs. Locke, Spinoza, Descartes, etc., were grievously disappointed yesterday morning, upon assembling at Memorial Hall, and finding no intellectual feast, in the way of an examination paper, prepared for them. We understand that the cause of the delay in the examination was that the instructor, who should have been on hand at nine o'clock, wearied himself exceedingly in pointing out, the evening before, the utter want of practicability in the instructor who, a few weeks ago, forgot the hour at which his examination began. So wearied grew our philosopher...
...placed a treasure in the hands of each woman, and thereby induced his sons to murder their mothers. Boshor at the same time aroused the jealousy of her daughters by fascinating all the men, and, working upon their passions, she induced them to poison their fathers at a great feast. The old savages having been thus destroyed, the gods made two canoes. In one of these they carried half the women over to the men; in the other they carried half the men over to the women. They then presented the renovated race with a code of laws, and, getting...
...with which we read the Berkleyan's pulverization of Carlyle. "The War of Independence," "Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century" furnish the pellets of a charge more remarkable for vigor than originality. We scarce remember to have seen, however, a more startling sense given to the metaphor of the feast of reason than when the writer likens Harvard degrees to the nectar of the gods, Harvard University to Vulcan exciting ridicule by playing Hebe, and Mr. Carlyle to a "little European godkin...
...priori grounds, at least, it is safe to say that seldom during the year has Harvard been represented by such an elegant assemblage of wit, or, at any rate, of wisdom, as, meeting round the festive board at Parker's on Friday evening, April 16, prolonged its feast of reason, without artificial aid from the flowing bowl, almost into Saturday morning. There were present about thirty of the more prominent scholars of the upper classes, who had there met together for mutual amusement. The injunctions of the menu had been carefully and fully observed by half past nine, and then...
...bare imagination of a feast...