Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Memorial is that they get tired of the sameness of the fare and lose their appetites. The same bill of fare appears every week on the same day and one knows beforehand just what to expect. This could be easily changed and such a variation adds to the relish of their meals. By lessening the number of vegetables served each day a greater variety could be offered without increase of expense. The fish is almost uniformly bad and everybody would be willing to give it up on four days of the week if the quality on the remaining days could...
...slam the door in our face. This is especially grievous, as the two steps in front of the door give an impetus to the push which the goer-out gives to the door, preparatory to jumping down these steps, and often cause the goer-in to experience the spicy relish of being knocked over backwards. It seems as if a change in the direction in which the doors swing would obviate the annoyance. But certainly glass panes ought to be placed in the doors, so that opposing faces might see each other in time to avoid a catastrophe. Although...
...freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will be little inferior to that of the university team's, and a large number of men are trying for every place in the field, while all are in strict training." We do not doubt that our freshman nine will relish the interesting information about themselves which the News here gives, but we trust they will not put too much confidence in it. The experience of former freshman nines offers a dismal warning to '89, and we feel sure that nothing but the hardest work will enable the freshmen to defeat...
Common people relish definiteness in a constitution, and the more rigid it is the better it is suited to the democratic mind, and by being rigid avoids two democratic dangers, disrespect for a minority and for fixed rules. Is there a progress from rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better...
...number and architectural beauty (as in Hollis and Stoughton) of the buildings, look into one or two of the recitation halls, hurry through the Museums, visit the library, and last but best of all, see the crowds of students enjoying with true students of students enjoying with true student relish the tempting spread on a Memorial Hall board. They have seen Harvard, or think they have, and go away satisfied doubtless to talk of Harvard's many fine buildings and superior advantages. But really they have seen only the outside of what the college has to show only the largeness...