Word: beasting 
              
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...poems are usually written in a strain just the contrary of my feelings. For instance, just after a delightful dinner (and it takes a poet to appreciate the dainties that a good cook can prepare), when I felt perfectly at peace with man and beast, I wrote the following somewhat dolorous effusion...
Relieve me from this hateful beast of prey...
...fain had run, so savage seemed that beast...
Would be aroused by some ill-treated beast...
...preparations for the New London race last summer. As to the question, whether a Freshman race held the day before the University race would seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the latter, there is room for much debate. One thing is certain, however, that the accommodations for man and beast at New London are entirely insufficient on such an occasion as an inter-University race, and that strenuous efforts should be made to prevent a repetition of the famine that raged there the 28th of last June...