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...Memorial Hall, including head money, must be kept below $4.25 a week. That in order to accomplish this he is hereby to dispense with the present unnecessary variety of dishes at dinner, and while preserving the best quality of food, to have but one roast at dinner, and roast beef not more than four times a week. He shall, however, add to the order list for dinner roast beef, turkey and chicken at 20 cents, and mutton at 15 cents, and beef steak and mutton chops at 15 cents. These articles when not selected for the regular bill of fare...
...question of the hour - athlete or aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...
...clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner man as its learned and scholarly aspect to the student...
...neat little book has just appeared, for the use of the school, containing the recipes for the fifth year's course in cookery. The list of dishes is appetizing and varied, from the everyday fare of bread, roast beef and mutton cutlets, to such delicacies as orange soufflee, plum pudding with fairy butter, and frozen peaches. Certainly, after a few such courses, a girl ought to be thoroughly armed and equipped for the three-fold problem of feminine life, wherein the factors are John, Biddy and the contents of the market basket...
...pretended to be greatly absorbed in a copy of the London Times. But I went up and greeted him heartily; and then I seated myself at the table, and ordered a brace of mutton-chops and a glass of 'alf-and-'alf. Tennyson was eating corned beef and cabbage with great relish, and I noticed that he invariably divided the portion of food upon his plate into triangular bits before conveying the same to his mouth. I asked him his reasons for so doing, but he did not give me a very satisfactory answer. When dinner was over, I told...