Word: jam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There had been a good deal of hazing at Stalace College during the past winter. Bands of sophomores, stimulated by tea, had entered the rooms of freshwomen, and by confiscating their hairpins, compelling them to surrender any jam or peanuts brought by them from home, and in some instances removing curl papers and straightening the hair of the victims with mucilage, had created some little ill-feeling between the classes. With a view of removing this ill-feeling by substituting a legitimate "rush" for illegitimate "hazing," committees of freshwomen and sophomores arranged the great back-hair rush of last Monday...
...striking difference between the systems of the two countries is in the arrangements about meals. In England the student is thrown more upon his own resources. "His 'house' gives him a breakfast of tea and bread and butter; he markets for himself for what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality...
...they are by the author's extensive investigations, they carry a very considerable weight. Many curious habits of students and writers are detailed. When Littre, the French philosopher, felt the strain upon his system produced by continuous thought he repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam, pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. Gladstone eschews tobacco and only drinks light wines. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental work, unstimulated by anything stronger than tea or coffee, unaffected by tobacco or other drugs. He does...
...Club were summoned to attend a regular meeting at Dr. Paine's in the following classic style: "Sciens, Socialite, Sobriete." -Doctores! Ducum nex mundi nitu Panes; triticum at ait. Expecto meta fumen tu te and eta beta pi. Super attento uno Dux hamor clam pati, sum parates, homine, ices, jam, etc. Sideror...