Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alcohol will not be wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer a conktail to another in sheer exuberance of good feeling...
...Boche on the other side of our line, and of driving out small parties which broke through, of sitting tight under his artillery fire, of dodging his rifle and machine gun bullets of smelling his gas and then scrambling into nose-bags, of eating one meal a day on feast days, and none at all on fast days, of staying aware day and night except for an, occasional forty winks stolen when things were more or less calm--in fact six days of pleasant contact with Mr. Boche, which, however, totalled up for all the outfits along the line, smashed...
Saturday morning the party, augmented by about fifty members who arrived from the delayed Finland went by special ferry and train to the Muir Woods, a grove of huge trees under which was served a genuine barbecue. Following the feast, games were played and the members returned to San Francisco accompanied by a 60-piece band. An elaborate banquet at the Palace Hotel Saturday evening closed the festivities. At this banquet a special table was reserved for undergraduates of whom there were a dozen present...
Usually the alumni of a college return to its ancient halls in the feast days of June when, of all times of the year, it is as college is not. On Monday last Yale inaugurated a movement calculated to permit graduates to see college as it is. Washington's Birthday, left unoccupied by the abolishment of the traditional fence rush, was set aside as "Alumni University Day"; and to celebrate the occasion over two hundred and fifty graduates turned to New Haven. They were taken on tours of the various University buildings, and heard talks on Yale problems by President...
Several rare first editions of Dryden's works from the Pearson Sale in London: "Astera Redux," 1660; "MacFlecknot," 1682; "Alexander's Feast," 1697; "Three Poems upon the Death of Oliver, Lord Protector of England," by Edmund Waller, John Dryden and Mr. Sprat and "Lachrymal Musarum," 1650; were recently presented to the University by A. McF. Davis '54, F. C. Halsey '68, and G. C. Beals '98. These books almost complete the Library's collection of first editions of Dryden. A first edition of John Donne: "The First Anniverserie," and "The Second Anniverserie," 1612, were purchased by the Library with...