Word: wassail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sword in the Stone (Putnam, $2.50) is a heady mixture of fantasy and fact, legend and history, with other assorted literary liquors-poorly blended and served lukewarm, disguised as cambric tea. This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail. The brew is not potent enough to make a reader pass out, but it may make some heads giddy...
...program of the services follows: Organ Preludes A is venue de Noel Balbastre Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Carols Deck the Hall Welsh Carol Wassail Song English Carol, arranged by Vanghan Williams Touro-Louro-louro Provencal Carol by Nicholas Saboly Scripture Reading, Luke 2, 1-19 Carols Listen Lordlings Osgood Cancion de Navidad (Radcliffe only) Austrian Carol God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen English Carol A spetless Rose Howells Congregational Hymn "Adeste Fiedlis" Masters in this Hall French Carol arranged by Gustav Holst Carol of the Tapping Shoe (Har. only) Czech Carol To God on High Decius Benediction Organ Postlude Hallelujah...
Cambridge last night maintained its long-standing drought; although alcohol was being consumed within the law in Boston and in large sections of the remainder of the nation, the only wassail within the sacred purlicus of Cambridge was either extra-legal or imported individually. Furthermore, there is no prospect of any spirituous relief until December 19; on this date, the Cambridge City Council voted at a meeting last night, the polls will be open to the public from ten until eight o'clock for a special vote on the liquor question. The ballot which will be presented to the people...
...program this year which will be given on the evenings stated at 8.15 o'clock, has been arranged by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the University choir. The carols to be sung this year are "The First Nool"; "Wassail Song", by Vaughan Williams; "Chanson Joyouse", by F. A. Geraert; "Bring a Torch, Jennette, Isabella", an old French carol harmonized by Nurm; "Christians Song of the 14th Century", by Bodenschatz; "Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep", a Besancon carol; "Silent Night, Holy Night"; and "Hallolujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
Here's to dear old Yale She's so hearty and so hale, Drink her down, drink her down, Drink her down, down, down! Celebrated in song and story is Yale's interest in the wassail cup. Last week two faculty members at New Haven-Professor Yandell Henderson of applied physiology and Professor R. Selden Rose, head of the Spanish department and chairman of the University Athletic Association-each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would...