Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism. You will scarcely believe me, I imagine, when I tell you that at one table at my end of the Hall a regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on subjects of every kind. I have heard them discuss free-thought in all its aspects at one meal, and at the next the probable course of Mukhtar Pasha. They keep a war-map at the table for reference. I can overhear every word they say, though there...
Soon after half past nine in the morning, the Seniors formed in front of Holworthy, with the band at their head, and started for breakfast at Professor Lowell's. A few, unable to endure the fatigue of so long a tramp, seated themselves in horse-cars or cabs, and took their ease on their way to Elmwood. About twelve o'clock they reappeared in the Square, and marched around the Yard, cheering the buildings in the old-fashioned way. The undergraduates gave them nine cheers in front of University, and after a chorus in front of Holworthy the Class separated...
...clock Professor J. B. Thayer gives a breakfast to the graduating class of the Law School...
...clock Professor H. L. Eustis gives a breakfast at his house to the candidates in Science and Engineering...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes receives the candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Dental Medicine, at breakfast at 10 o'clock, at his house, 296 Beacon Street...