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Students, after a sumptuous repast, to host: "Our compliments to your kitchen and cellar. We have agreed to have a running match, and the one who comes out last will pay the bill. Will you kindly give us a signal to start?" The beaming host slowly counts one, two, three; the students disappear round the corner and are seen no more. - [Fliegende Blatter...
...close of the sumptuous repast the presiding officer rose with the assistance of his neighbors, and said, "Gentlemen, I give you as our first toast this evening, The Crimson. Long may she blush...
...newspapers say, let us now enter. "The interior is sumptuous in its richness. The arched ceiling is frescoed in bright and happy coloring. Silver-plated hooks for clothing are along the sides, and nine improved lamps hang from the ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons...
...student seeking amusement after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected...
...office, and he has been succeeded by a man who seems to be much better qualified for the place. Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that the President was obliged to curtail the bill-of-fare for sanitary reasons. If the Association continues as it has begun, - and the directors should see to it that it does, - a dissolution of the Commons, the horrors of which...