Word: porter
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...PORTER,Centennial Committee, Lexington, Mass.THE regular Spring business meeting of the Athletic Association will be held in one of the College halls, on Monday evening next, at half past seven. Due notice of the place will be given, and all members are earnestly requested to attend, as a Constitution and Field Regulations are to be adopted, and preparations made for the June Field Meeting...
...Electoral roll" of the University, there were 1,180 members resident in the Easter term, 1874. The expenses for one year were pound 2,188 leaving a balance on hand of pound 296. The chief items were pound 380 for the salaries of the three clerks, housekeeper, and porter, and pound 280 for dividends on "debentures," and a debenture of pound 250 was paid off. These statistics are of value in showing the extent and flourishing condition of the Society; let me now quote again from a letter in regard to its character...
...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; but we would...
...large Liddell and Scott before him, and a green shade over his eyes. He must be a Freshman. We enter a room in Weld, where one occupant looks up from his solitary pipe to inform us that his chum has gone out to take a run up to Porter's for crew-training...
...reunion of the Class of '72 P. A. took place Friday evening of last week at Andover. The officers were: President, F. S. Livingood; Vice-President, John Porter; Orator, S. R. Johnson; Poet, C. A. Dickinson; Toast-Master, W. N. Frew; Odist, E. E. Parker; Committee of Arrangements, J. G. Gospil, W. H. Moody, A. H. Dellicker. The Toast-Master, Mr. Frew of Yale, was particularly happy, and the whole affair passed off in the most satisfactory manner...