Word: punching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several freshmen of our acquaintance have received copies of the following note: "You are invited to give a punch this (Bloody Monday) evening at 9.15, or take the consequences. Hazing committee of '89." We have been asked to advise them what to do in regard to this circular. Our reply is: nothing at all. There is too much public sentiment against Bloody Monday to allow the threats to be carried into execution, and if they are carried into execution a simple statement of the names of the aggressors in the columns of the CRIMSON will prevent its repetition...
...journals of the large cities, without having any need of attention from the Lampoon. Our contemporary loses its individuality when it publishes them. We would rather see it keep its long held reputation of being the best college funny paper in the country than have it rival Life, or Punch, or Puck...
READING ROOM. Subscribers are urged to pay their subscriptions at once. The room needs funds. Files of the following papers will be sold to the highest bidder. Judge, Puck, Life, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, Punch, Scientific American, Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Pall Mall Budget, Youth's Companion, Nation, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Columbia Spectator, Yale Courant, and others. Any student desiring files of any papers may communicate with the undersigned...
...grown up, however, by the side of Valedictory Day a new custom of dancing around the Liberty Tree, (the present class tree). As soon as dinner was over, all the undergraduates began to assemble around the tree and in the back rooms of Hollis and Stoughton. The seniors provided punch in a barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree, and were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control...
...Kirsch Punch...