Word: thread
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other green stuff by the Provost to those who are nearest the eastern end of the Hall. On New Year's Day, another ancient custom prevails in this College. To all the guests assembled on that occasion it is the duty of the Bursar to present a needle and thread, admonishing each recipient with these words, "Take this and be thrifty." The custom is one of great antiquity, and has been deemed to have arisen, perhaps without much authority, in a pun on the founder's name. Aiguille is the Erench for needle, and fill for thread...
...College is remarkable for the number of quaint customs it retains, among them the summoning the students to meals by trumpet instead of bell, and bringing in the Boar's Head with carols, while every Eastertide the Bursar presents each member of the college with a needle and thread accompanied by the suitable motto "Be Thrifty." The library is one of the largest among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics has the crozier...
...weeks ago, it will be remembered, Prof. Sumner of Yale made some remarks in a lecture on free trade which were at once taken up as a challenge by advocates of protection. The superintendent of the thread mills at Willimantic, Conn., embraced the opportunity to invite a number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were...
This is not the first time that the existence of Memorial has hung by a thread which the slightest strain would easily break. It is now time, once for all, to determine the needs of its future and permanent welfare. We must look the facts squarely in the face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show...
...justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course." And so the changes are rung on "cuts" for a full page more...