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...wanted no "candy and cake" atmosphere, refused to allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
This association of strong drink with Class Day is a significant historical strand. In 1693, probably before the advent of the valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON...
...people speaking of reducing taxation, and, at the same time, see the costs of the social services rising rapidly, in response very often to the demands of the same people, I sometimes rather wonder whether they appreciate to the full the old adage that 'we cannot have our cake...
Time to Sit. Up & down Europe there were variations of the Birmingham theme. London's Daily Mail shuddered to think what Britain would be like without ECAid: "Bread, cake and pastry supplies cut to half of what they are now. Butter, cheese and sugar rations down by one-third. No cotton goods in the shops. Footwear supplies drastically cut. Cigarette and tobacco supplies cut by 75%. New housing programs down by half . . . Private motoring cut ... to 40 miles a month or less...
...order to carry out the principles of my religious faith, which is Hedonism, I am obliged to observe certain distary restrictions. For example, my religion requires me to cat filet mignon and devil's food cake with fudge frosting on Friday; to consume cocktails before and after each evening meal, and to abstain entirely from certain uninteresting foods, such as fish...