Word: suppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beta Kappa initiation supper will be held at Young's, Thursday evening, at half-past seven...
...Cornell freshmen have at last succeeded in holding their supper without being molested by the upper class...
...learned that on Friday last the young ladies of the freshman class of Sage College in Ithica, not wishing to be outdone by the Cornell freshmen, made preparations for a like class supper. The sophomores getting wind of the affair on Friday just before supper, licked some of the prominent freshman girls in their rooms intending in this way to break up the supper. They finally relented, however, and let the freshmen out on condition that they should share their supper with them. The freshmen could do no better than consent. So, like a dish of cream with two spoons...
...Friday morning came, Teal, acting on instructions, telegraphed to the real freshmen that he had missed the train and would not go to Ithaca till 9 P. M. This gave the '86 men time to get to Tremeansburg and lulled the '87's into an unsuspecting confidence that their supper would come at last in proper condition...
Meanwhile the supper was laid at Tremeansburg and an extra force of citizens sworn in as police to protect the solaced freshmen. These inoffensive looking young men arrived by the correct train and sat down to a very handsome supper, safely guarded from its real owners. For several hours the fun was kept up aided by music from the minstrels and band, and stolen toasts prepared by the unlucky freshmen. In particular, one which said that: "The class of '87 is the largest class that has entered the university for five years, and if every succeeding class is morally, mentally...