Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Courant complains that some of the foot-ball team "are studiously careless about their diet, keep unseasonable hours, and indulge themselves." To judge from the boating editorial and the letter from a graduate, there seems to be a feeling of dissatisfaction at our willingness to row Cornell and Columbia. We make the following extracts from the letter...
...been too often shown that the average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race...
...come in at a quarter past six, and that this has been often the case, our own personal experience can testify. To be sure, the Steward never refuses to give us something to eat; but, frankly speaking, pork and ham and pressed hash are not exactly the kind of diet most men have a craving for. The pears have been miniature brickbats, and the grapes not always what they should be. Another grievance comes, however, from the opposite quarter. Certain men, who presumably work in Boylston Hall, will persist in coming into Memorial, and sitting down to table with...
...quarantine, having exposed themselves to this loathsome disease by kissing the patient before her condition was known. Of course this has no connection with the fact that numbers of the gentlemen of the Institution are anxiously watching their symptoms from day to day and restricting themselves in regard to diet...
...order,E. W. CATE,F. C. FAULKNER,A. L. GOODRICH,Class Committee.WHY may Henry V. be likened to a fish? Because he was caught by a diet of worms. (Only the student in German history can appreciate the above...