Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reference to the photographs of the senior and freshman classes, which were taken last week, the Cambridge Tribune speaks as follows: "Of course it was to be expected that the dignified seniors would be photographed in sober silence, but when the freshmen's turn came the vast difference between Harvard and other colleges was immediately apparent, a difference which Harvard considers greatly to its credit, but which would be unheard of elsewhere. The freshmen sat quietly in their places and had their photographs taken as if it was a matter of course. There was not a sophomore to be seen...
...Identity," the first poem of the number, is a bit of verse very prettily clothing a sober thought...
...death, and predict '92 will be the largest class ever entered. Put on my blue dressing gown, blue trousers, blue flannel shirt, and rang bell till peelers interfered. What a glorious day for Yale! Shall preach on "The Ennobling Effects of College Athletics' next Sunday. Hope the boys are sober to-night."- Timothy Dwight...
...college laws in those days were very severe in regard to the use of tobacco. No student could use it "unless permitted by the president with the consent of parents or guardians, and on good reasons first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private manner." What a deal of pleasure the students of that day must have lost, deprived as they were of unlimited "smokes." The origin of class day can be traced back to the fondness of those early students for plum cake. Very soon in the history of the college, the students gave...
...loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost an intoxicating one. To advise these men to take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these the monotony of the gymnasium will in the long run become irksome. The tennis player will admit that...