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...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 who wished for more...
...Fast ebbs my fun away...
April 5 has been selected by the governor for Fast...
...Bigelow; average, 160 3/4 lbs. Ayer (154), the regular number three, is temporarily laid up. There are also four extra men who row in the evening - Delafield, Guild, Boyden and C. A. Brown. The crew have been on the slides about two weeks, rowing a rather fast stroke, about 31 or 32 to the minute. The crew has yet a somewhat ragged appearance caused by the men not swinging straight fore and aft. This, although simply a matter of appearance in the gymnasium, becomes very important in a narrow shell. There is a general tendency throughout the boat, and particularly...
...more prominent characteristics of student life that is taking place, we are now to see the decay of the art of writing and singing college songs. However satisfactory or however insufficient this explanation may be, it seems to be an undoubted fact that this art is fast disappearing from our midst - the art of writing songs with all the old nerve and swing of "Bingo" or "Cocachelunk," at least - a fact truly to be regretted and melancholy to contemplate...