Word: eat
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Eat, drink, and be merry, my future...
...little boys at Harvard Collig?" The smiles at this period became audible, but as I have read the "Robbers" in my German elective, and sat under the sarcastic professor of themes, I did not blush. On his aunt's murmured reply, he proceeded, "What is a Deene? Does he eat up the naughty boys, or carry 'em off in a sack?" A gentleman who was leaving the car remarked that "they were generally too 'tough' to be swallowed, and had to be sacked...
Rivalling his great exemplar, he became a dig. He refused to countenance any such Freshman immoralities as beer and cigarettes; he would not even eat peanuts in Latin recitations. He never cut prayers, or said, "Not prepared." But yet, in spite of his noble character and many excellences, no handsome and popular upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till...
...confound you, Pam, aw, - I did n't drink it, you know, - aw, - I never drink, you know, - this is a temperance hotel, - I never even eat, you know, except 'Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge' that comes from the - aw - law pills below...
...takings of his own class. It seems a very selfish way of looking at the matter for a man to consider only the amount of future benefit he expects to receive out of it himself, and to determine his subscription by the amount of food that he expects to eat and printing that he expects to read. Every man should contribute with a view to the good of the whole class, as well as his individual benefit; and it is not too much to say that '80 should set a good example to the less generous under-classes in College...