Word: punching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...orators themselves. These honors fell upon Messrs. Hildreth, Root, Parker, Noble, Dunham and Halbert of the academical department; Mr. Hardon of the Law School; Mr. Day of the Divinity School. After the bestowal of degrees by President Eliot, the exercises closed. Then came the jovial rallies around the punch bowls by the younger of the alumni, and while these festivities were going on, the more sedate of the alumni held their annual business meeting in Harvard Hall...
...ribbons which flaunt themselves at the further extremity. Previous to its appearance on class day, the 'Squeezer' is exhibited to the class for which it is intended, and the exhibition is one in which the old relic is made to perform a part, one of the lemons flavoring the punch drank upon the occasion being squeezed in it by every member of the receiving class...
...that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education. They would soon find that it was the boys who were kept home to wash the dishes, and the girls who came to college to learn how to box, make punch, and lie to the Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn't? And the prayers are voluntary. So, after all, Boston University is well worth attention, thinks the visitor, as he accompanies...
...room containing the Annex reference library has been known as the reading room, but has held no periodicals. The new club of Annex students has taken steps to supply this deficiency. The London Spectator and Punch, the Nation and the Century have been promised by a lady interested in the project, and a subscription is being started among the students to increase the list on file. It is intended to have no "dues" for use of the periodicals, but on the contrary, make them as accessible as possible to the whole body of Annex students...
Second under-graduate : "Oh, yes! first-rate."-(Punch...