Word: toasts
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...days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From the idea of pledging, "health" drinking was easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England of emptying the cup or glass and then pouring the remaining drop or two upon the finger nail...
...clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each and all of these we greet with renewed respect...
...ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast a few days before, as Kansas Prarie Chicken. Let all due allowance be made for the last two statements, as well as for the information vouchsafed by our unblushing guide that the case of grinning skeletons were ex-Harvard presidents...
English Snipe on Toast, Lettuce Salad...
...president Baldwin presided at the dinner, and N. W. McIvor, L. S., officiated as toast-master. Responses were made to the following toasts: The New Administration, Merriam, '86; The Old Administration, Baldwin, '85; Ethical Relation between Hash and Dyspesia, Wheeler, D. S.; Our Trials and Tribulations, Houston, L. S.; Cockroaches, Hayward, S. S.; Auditing Committee, Huddleston, '86; Ladies in the Gallery and Ladies in the Pit, Davidson, '85; The Board in the Matrimonial Platform, Allen, '88; Memorial Drinks, Rogers, '86; Danger of Encouraging Athleticism among the Waiters, Churchill, '88; The Aristociacy of the Little Room, Vogel, '87; The Hall...