Word: teas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia matter before tackling these other questions. Yale's challenge was sent Oct. 18, and its receipt promptly acknowledged. Yale ought to understand the matter perfectly well, and this action of hers seems to Harvard men a most absurd piece of poppycock. It is a tempest in a tea-pot. - [Boston Globe...
...Vassar tendency to imitate Harvard and Yale as evidence of the truth of his statement, mentioning hotel dinners with toasts and responses as especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments. It is only when women isolate themselves from men that they try to imitate manly foibles. - [Woman's Journal...
...know something of the life that is led by the students at Girton. The plan is to have all the meals in the dining hall; breakfast is supplied there from 8 to 9, lunch from 12 to 3, and dinner, which is, of course, a general meal, at 6. Tea is sent to the students' own rooms; about 4 o'clock the cheerful rattling of teacups is heard in the corridors, and announces the arrival of the servants with a large trayful of cups. These trays are taken round to all the students' rooms, and also to the lecture-rooms...
...cream was moulded. Her instructions were received without visible signs of comprehension by the servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed to slip down and attend to it, they went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour out tea for the company and attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds to within six inches of the ground; her feet and ankles coming into prominence thereby, were encased...
...sure, a station on the Davenport, Dubuque & Iowa R. R., between the towns of West Saug and North Saug. It had its "prettiest girl in town;" its half a dozen churches, with the attendant meetings of the "Gleaners" every Wednesday afternoon; its church sociables, known among the Gentiles as "tea-fights" and "muffin-scrambles," and all the other necessary opportunities for gossip kindly provided by every such institution with "a vigorous religious life...