Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual enthusiasm at Memorial Hall the night before the Princeton game is growing weaker each year, according to the oldest waiter who philosophized on the important part such evenings form in a man's later reminiscences. It seems that in the good old days the chandeliers were festooned with victuals, and foodstuffs kept falling from the upper regions of the hall for several hours after the evening meal was over. The festivities this year opened with a volley of menus and table-number cards. This was rapidly followed by the conventional shower of sugar wrapped in napkins which were hurled...
Some daring innovator conceived the idea of throwing tooth-picks in bunches. This was quickly taken up by a score of imitators, although it was somewhat frowned upon by the members of the old school. There was the usual number of reckless persons who did not hesitate to throw ice and butter, while some favored napkins soaked in water. The firing of mashed potatoes and chocolate cream pie was rare but effective. One man dared to swing the catsup bottle round his head, but was deterred by his companions before this project could be put into execution. The evening...
...most practical charities carried on by Phillips Brooks House is the distributing of old clothing and used books to individuals who are in need of such things. This year the better articles of clothing are to be sent over to the destitute inhabitants of Northern France...
...Oxford, Padua. Possibly the registration system wasn't as accurate as Columbia's. Last year she had 19,094 students, or more than 13,000, if the summer sessioners be counted out. The teaching staff has 959 members. The original faculty, the whole corps of instructors, in the good old Colony times and beginnings of King's College, was its first President, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and his undergraduates were eight. In our own time Columbia has grown gigantically. She is become a great national and cosmopolitan university...
...ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough to sleep when...