Word: punching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School building, Dane Hall, in the room directly above that occupied by the Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college...
...Ruskin's last Oxford lecture was mainly devoted to a eulogy of Du Maurier's work in Punch...
...Punch...
...take in commencement? Second Ditto - What commencement? F. S. A. - Why, Harvard, of course. S. S. A. - They be'n't goin' ter have none, this year. F. S. A. - How d' yer make that out? S. S. A. - Why, no LL. D., no governor, no Lancers, no punch. Where's yer commencement? - [Transcript...
Such is the story of commencement day, and such, it is hoped, it will ever remain. Last year the various class secretaries, who usually make the arrangements for providing the refreshments for their several classes, were politely requested to have nothing stronger than claret punch, or some equally harmless decoction, provided for the class entertainments. This request was complied with in several instances, but it was generally observed that the claret punch entertainments were neglected by those for whose edification they had been provided, and that the rooms where the old fashioned article was set forth were extensively patronized...