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...will it rob the Union of the latter's clientelle, for the Union has much of the atmosphere and congeniality of a club. The percentage of each class which falls into these two categories is, however, fairly small. If the remainder of the undergraduates who live at college ate at Memorial Hall, its walls would certainly undergo a violent stiain...
Dunkards were originally a cele-bate order whose membership ate meat only once a year and held property in common. The rules hare now been abandoned in the states where they are strongest, Texas and Tennessee. There are now 100,000 Dunkards. They may marry...
...says that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
...return to Mr. Hecht, however; this gentleman has discovered that men of genius have commonly disregarded the anguished cries of their stomachs. Napoleon, who is an example for almost everything, ate at all hours, nibbled sweets constantly, and finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from...
...Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Franz Dietrich, "champion sausage eater of Ger-many," ate 14 one-pound sausages, drank 10 large glasses of beer in two hours...