Word: punch
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After the punch, plumcakes and drunken Puritans of the 17th century were toned down during the 18th, revelry switched venues and Class Day became the focus during the 19th century, with its dances and wild scramble around the Class-Day Tree. Commencement unruliness during the 20th century showed a more radical side in the closing years of the 1960s...
...shall be no offence if any scholar shall, at Commencement, make, and entertain guests at his chamber, with punch...
However innocently it was looked upon by the authorities, “punch-frenzies” were cemented as a common part of the Commencement ritual...
...students aid out buckets of punch for the general public, greatly increased with a “non-scholastic” element after the construction of the first CharlesRiver Bridge between Boston and Cambridge...
...Peter J. Gomes eyed the scorpion bowl in front of him, stuck the foot-long straw between his lips, sipped a bit of the potent punch, paused and then pronounced, “It tastes like orange juice!” While the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals chowed down on chicken fried rice and drank deeply from the Kong’s “communal cup,” I, along with my classmates in Religion 1513, observed...