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...university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness.' As for Princeton, we will say nothing; but, as between Harvard and Yale, on a question of rowdyism, Yale will take the cake. The Harvard boys have a great spirit of fun, but nowadays it is oftenest vented in bits of revelry that harm no one, but which, on the other hand, make everybody laugh. The demonstration of the students at Music Hall last evening, furnishes a case in point." Taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1882 | See Source »

JULIA (startled, drops hoe-cake. THEODORE takes the cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCENE TAKEN FROM THE NEW HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...Enter THEODORE playing a jews-harp, who sees JULIA seated at the window of a hen-coop, eating hoe-cake, and playing on the ozone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCENE TAKEN FROM THE NEW HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...carries off the immortal cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

Every student will be expected to provide himself with the costume mentioned above, a patent gymnastic belt, a cake of perfumed soap, a flannel bathing-suit with shoes, and a copy of the Harvard Recorder.1 Students must leave their shoes at the plank walk, and put on white felt slippers; no slippers can be used except those sold at the Gymnasium at the moderate price of $8.00 a pair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIT OF PAPER. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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