Word: punching
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...profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment on commencement day, were no longer to be tolerated. Hence there was a wailing among the festive portion of the alumni, and among the more grave and reverend portion of the graduates...
Commencement punch is one of the sacred traditions of Cambridge, and it has been handed down along with the other good old customs, with all its mellow influences unimpaired. In the old days the punch used to be served in huge tubs on the college green, and classmates pledged each other's health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates...
...colonial college, the lecturer continued, was a religious and educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean...
Plagiarism is rampant. The Columbia Spectator, in its last issue, in a scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...
...Francisco Call. Weekly-Sunday Herald (two copies), Sunday Globe, Saturday Evening Gazette, Saturday Evening Traveller, Woman's Journal, Weekly Magazine, Unity, Index, Louisville Courier Journal, Cambridge Tribune, Vicksburg Herald, New York Weekly Witness, New York Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly, Life, Punch, Puck, London Illustrated News, London Graphic, The Nation, Progress, Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record and News, Princetonian, Tiger, Columbia Spectator and Acta Columbiana, and all the periodicals of thirty...