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...they were ignorant of the fact that the faculty furnish a "cage" in the gymnasium in which to practice hand-ball. In truth, a cage seems to be the only suitable place for the majority of them. Now and then a man will toss a piece of cake in the air, and endeavor to catch it in his mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey, but entirely out of place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn...
...with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking...
Brandy Jelly. Assorted Cake...
What the objectionable cake was, how it was made, and why the authorities disliked it, we shall never know. But certain it is that after this dreadful order was passed, Jacobus and Guilliemus with a taste for "Plumb Cake," must have gone to bed hungry after burning the midnight oil, or else have incurred the penalty of the college...
...corporation having been informed that ye custom taken up in the College, not used in any other Universities, the Comencers to have Plumb-Cake, is dishonorable to ye colledge, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to ye Parents of ye Comencers; do therefore put an End to that Custom, and do hereby order that no Comencer or other scholar, shall have any Such Cakes in their Studies or Chambers, and that if any Scholar shall offend therein, ye Cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each and such offence...