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Styled in silver, this sterling cigarette holder is a replica of an early 18th Century Colonial Ale tankard. It stands 2 3/4 inches high and was fashioned in detail by one of Boston's oldest silversmits, GEBELEIN, at 79 Chestnut...
...Harkness Cup, the more valuable of the two, is an old ornate silver cup of the customary pattern. The Inter-College trophy is a 200 year old tankard...
...young Benjamin Franklin organized ten convivial friends into the "Junto"*study club, to discuss such questions as: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard?" and "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" The Junto club has long since disbanded, but it is still so famed in Philadelphia that when a group of public-spirited citizens started a nonprofit school for adult education in 1941, Junto seemed the logical name for it. Last week, the Junto told of making a business deal in its own self-interest that would have brought an amazed gasp from...
...honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted by the demands of a changing world and an older student body ("How could you stop a lieutenant colonel from drinking...
...Know if we Campbell the double shift this time and get away with it but the game will be the McCoy or I'll Boachetti in the face for making me go to the game," the old Sage added with a Burke, but before he litted another tankard he leaned over to Asnavourian if the socre wouldn't be Harvard 14 Boston College...