Word: ciders
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...five remaining days the meat was roasted, and to them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went always two potatoes. When boiling days came round pudding and cabbage, wild peas and dandelions were added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter cans, which were passed from mouth to mouth, and when emptied were again replenished. For supper there was a bowl of milk and a size of bread. The hungry Oliver...
...defence in the Bowdoin College hazing case was opened with the argument that the students were searching for cider...
...room on the second floor of Appleton Hall. A piece of coal weighing one pound was thrown through the glass, striking him in the eye, causing a serious wound. A few minutes after the defendants entered the room on a hazing expedition, for the purpose of seizing some cider supposed to be in the possession of the freshman. The complainant does not know who threw the coal, but claims that a combination was formed, and that circumstances are so strong and convincing that the conclusion cannot be resisted that this party of students are responsible for the injury, no matter...
...trial of Bowdoin students for hazing began at Portland yesterday. Testimony was given against the men on trial by Gen. Chamberlain that they had visited Strout's room to get cider. Three freshmen also testified to the defendants coming into their rooms and compelling them to read Latin, play on the flute and subjecting them to other indignities...
...even in the middle of the winter it has a cold, still charm that endears it very much to the student of a pedestrian turn of mind, who starts off early in the morning, if possible, and tramps all over the country, finding substantial support in the good old cider and cold meals obtained at the farm-houses on the road, and returns home in time for his supper with the appetite of a giant and with every bone in his body aching in honest sympathy with his feet...