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...peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater, and a bright carpet has replaced the rags on the floor...
...quite a century later, the activities of Harvard undergraduates in carrying out religiously the spirit and the letter of the "Hard Cider" campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", led to certain unpleasantness with officials in Cambridge-port. Campaigns in the "Colleges in Cambridge in New England" have always been featured by torch-light processions stump-speeches, charges and counter-charges as vigorous and often as vituperative as those in an alderman's election in a closely contested ward...
Things are very little different today. The coming election will not be celebrated like Hutchinson's by hymn-singing in Holden, nor like Harrison's by "horse sense" and "hard cider", with too little of the former and too much of the latter. But the interest is still there and tonight at the Union, the open meeting of the newly organized Republican Club, with men like Senator Moses and Senator Wadsworth speaking, will be crowded with students "zealous in their interest for the public welfare...
...Christmas reception of Phillips Brooks House will be held on Sunday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. The program will consist of carol singing, led by Professor A. T. Davison '06, and a sleight-of-hand performance by Philip Walker '25, as well as reading and music. Refreshments, consisting of cider, doughnuts, and nuts, will be served...
Following the entertainment there will be informal singing before an open fire and refreshments of doughnuts, cider, nuts and candy...