Word: punching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Weeklies. - N. Y. Nation, Harper's, Leslie's, Observer, Punch, London Graphic, and London Times...
...word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch...
...must be said that there are some queer stories afloat in Hartford about a little performance decidedly hurtful to Harvard's success, in which a certain Hartford sporting man, with heavy bets on Yale, some gallons of punch, and some six members of the Harvard Nine, figured prominently the night before the match...
Forebodings of this nature have been brought home to many Seniors during the jollifications of the holidays, for in the midst of the merriest punch a feeling of sadness would come over all at the thought that this was the last Christmas vacation of our undergraduate life, together with the thought of how ill prepared we are to struggle with the world next year...
...college drunkenness, you will find as you grow more familiar with college life that a great many men talk about getting drunk who seldom drink too much. You will find, too, that many of the fellows who in the beginning of the course have occasionally been overcome by punch, soon give it up. And you may generalize from this to other sorts of dissipation, which I have neither the space nor the inclination to specify...