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...thirty thousand dollars, it is to be expected that the Corporation will see to it that no falling-off shall occur in the present arrangements. The food is wholesome, well cooked, and abundant, but not of great variety. Meat is furnished twice a day, cold meat being given at breakfast and hot at dinner; hot rolls and good coffee are also given at breakfast...
Vessel pitching violently when I awake. Steward asks if I will get up to breakfast. Reply, "Of course I will get up to breakfast." Smoking pork-steak! Miserable meal. Cannot eat anything. Think I would like fresh air. Go up on deck and stagger to the rail. My beaver blows overboard. Do not mind it at all. Sympathizing gentleman lends me a cap three times too large for me. I think people are laughing, but do not pay any attention to them. Am entirely indifferent to everything. Think I had better go back to bed . . . .July...
...Senior Class assemble in front of Holworthy Hall, march to the Chapel for prayer by the Chaplain, then to breakfast, and from there march to the Chapel, where the exercises will occupy nearly two hours...
...five and a half in winter - the drum beats the signal for rising. Twenty minutes are allowed for dressing; then everybody descends to study. The scholars take their places at their desks, that of the master occupying a platform from whence he can see everything that goes forward. Breakfast follows, then recreation, and after that recitations; and the whole day is thus divided between study, eating, recitation, and recreation. Every exercise is indicated by the roll of the drum. All is done literally as in barracks. This we have from the first Consul...
CONNECTED with this subject is another; the manner of taking one's meals. Memorial Hall has often been suggested as the place where Commons ought to be, and a writer in our columns has argued that Commons should be made compulsory. But to us the English method, where breakfast could be provided in the room of any student, has always seemed pleasant; of course the arrangement here, quite different from the English, would make it impossible for the College to do such a thing. But really, to prepare a plain breakfast not much work is necessary, nor to prepare...