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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thing, though a logical result of undergraduate reactionary sentiment, when they consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence, by all means step in and instantly abolish. Don't hang another millstone around its neck and say, "Linger on." That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/14/1908 | See Source »

...University basketball team will play West Point at West Point this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the last game of the season. The team will arrive at West Point about noon, where they will be the guests of Lieutenant D. S. Crissy; they will mess with the cadets, and play the game in the afternoon, after which the team will break training and return to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball With West Point Today | 3/7/1908 | See Source »

...like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Third Noble Lecture. | 12/4/1900 | See Source »

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