Word: mug
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite the tables with their canes. Even this ear-splitting uproar does not do full justice to the enthusiasm of one group. So they leap upon their...
...hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer can be had. Some of these clubs appoint a "praeses" or president for a year, others for a university term, and still others for a period of a few weeks. The main...
...influences were too strong to be overcome by a rush, and few men joined the society, except those who were already total abstainers. These unhappy conditions continue to such an extent, that, I think, a man who sees no harm to himself in a glass of wine or a mug of beer, should sacrifice his own pleasure for the sake of influencing by his example those who are, perhaps, sacrificing their chances for even respectable success in life. But this cannot be expected from more than a very few men, as each student thinks his own influence would...
...devotee rather chose to follow the wise example of old President Kirkland, who, hearing that the flip provided at a neighboring tavern had too great attraction for the collegians under his charge, resolved to investigate the matter himself. Accordingly, entering the tavern one fine morning, he called for a mug of it, and having drunk it, said...