Word: ye
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first place, no one was permitted to go to another town without the "License of ye Overseers," nor could he be a member of the "Artillery or traine-Band." About 1650 several special orders of the College were passed: "No Scholar shall buy sell, or exchange anything to ye value of six-pence without ye allowance of his parents, guardians or tutors. The scholars shall never use their Mother-tongue except in public exercises of oratory, where they are called to make them in English. No scholar whatever, without the acquaintance and leave of ye President and his Tutor shall...
Further, "No scholar shall unnecessarily frequent any tavern or Victualling House in Cambridge to eat or Drink there without leave from ye President or one of the Tutors." Immediately after this order was repealed a number of eating houses, probably exceeding the present multitude, sprang up and did an excellent business...
...this period there is also mentioned the first public debates. "The Undergraduates shall in their course declaim publicly in the Hall, in one of ye three Learned Languages. The Senior Sophisters shall dispute publicly in the Hall once a week till the tenth of March. Resident Bachelours shall dispute in the Hall once a fortnight (from ye tenth of September to the tenth of March) on such questions as the President directs." The celebrations at these events caused the following order: "If any scholar be guilty of drunkenness, he shall be fined 5 shillings and make a public confession...
...Deutscher Verein sports union is glad to see that the drinkers of absinthe have hurled their hat into the ring. The Dutscher Farine Club take up the hat and hope to be able to clean the bases with it. Beware, Oh, Ye Cerclers, lest you find you cannot get back the hat from the circle into which you have so rashly thrown it. We the "Sauerkraut eaters" are glad to accept your challenge and will provide a keg of goodly Muenchener if our friends of the "Twirleries" will provide some good Mumm, for that being dry will surely increase...
...special musical program has been prepared for the service, and is as follows: organ prelude, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," by Kang-Elert; anthem, "Unfold Ye Portals," by Gounod; prayer response for the choir "O Holy Saviour," by Flemming; the hymns "Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!" and "Jerusalem the Golden;" and the organ postlude "Toccata," by Widor...