Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. 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...
BOSTON THEATRE. - "pound 50,000." Performance...
...said. He could not have been a great preacher; we judge that he was only a man with an earnest purpose and fair ability. That he was generous is obvious, for when, after a year, he died, he left directions in his will that half of his estate, about Pound 800, and all his library should be devoted to the founding of a "schoale or colledge," to rear up both white and Indian boys, "in knowledge ande godlynes" This was more than generosity, in the state of affairs at that time - it was the greatest liberality. In 1637, the year...
Several students in a neighboring university town not long ago astonished the keeper of a restaurant by refusing to pay their bills, under color of the statutory law. Sure enough, it was found that, if a stablekeeper lets a carriage, or a confectioner sells half a pound of caramels to "a student of an incorporated academy or other educational institution within this state," and gives him credit therefor, he violates the law, and forfeits twice the amount so credited, "whether the same is paid or not." - [Boston Herald...
...private, I think there are some very strong ones why it should not be done in public. When a fellow becomes bloody and weak and unable to return blows with any strength, if at all, it is neither an exhibition of pluck nor skill for the stronger to pound the one who cannot defend himself. Pluck and skill are what is sought after in these meetings, but not when they both degenerate into a brutal spectacle, there can be no pleasure in witnessing it. The only feeling in many are pity and disgust, instead of admiration for good athletics...