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...MORRISON, Sec'y.H. A. A. Winners of prizes at the fall meeting may have their choice between silver and bronze medals of the old style, and pint and half pint pewter mugs engraved at the expense of the association. Medals will be ordered, however, for all who do not notify Mr. J. S. Russell, 37 Thayer, of their preference for mugs, on or before Saturday...
...Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean table-cloths twice a week, and finally could indulge in the luxury of plates. Pudding was a delicacy three times...
Then he bought a pint of pea-nuts...
...extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect of the Puritans," we shall not lack warnings of the danger of opinions such as we have expressed...