Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island will hold a convention here tomorrow to form a department league and arrange for work this fall. Williams, Brown, Amherst, Tufts, Technology, Boston University and other colleges will be represented by delegates. There will be a business meeting at 2 p. m., and a "smoke talk" in the evening in the rooms of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, corner of Palmer and Brattle streets. In the afternoon there will be addresses by Arthur P. Stone, president of the Harvard Republican club, Theodore Cox of New York, president of the American Republican College League, and others...
...sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks...
...Catholic Club held a "smoke talk" last evening. There was a large attendance of members. Rev. Father W. H. O'Connell of St. Joseph's Church, Boston, gave an interesting talk on student life in the American school at Rome. He spoke feelingly of the inspiration to study in Rome, the centre of Christianity and the receptacle of the best relics and works of art of all ages and men. He said that the associations of Rome, which so firmly fix upon the young ecclesiastic the importance of his calling, are almost of more importance than the immediate study that...
...CLEVELAND, JR., Sec.HARVARD CATHOLIC CLUB.- Smoke talk this evening in Room 9, Roberts Hall, at 8 o'clock...
...coming from New York, thirty from Connecticut, twelve from Massachusetts and the rest scattering. Twenty-four members fitted in Andover, fourteen at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; eleven in the Hartford High School and eight in the New Haven High School. Sixty-nine of the class smoke. One hundred and eight are church members, their denominations being as follows: Congregational, forty-three; Presbyterian, twenty-six; Episcopal, sixteen; Baptist, thirteen; Roman Catholic, nine; Methodist, three; Dutch Reformed, one. The class votes against a continuance of the present system of compulsory chapel. In athletics the class crew did the most...