Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shells, but as time failed for the completion of the works, bags of potatoes taken from the peasants who were hurrying into Paris, were used instead of bags of earth, and so great was the lack of provisions among the soldiers that they were forced actually "to eat their defences." Although there were between two and three hundred thousand men around Paris, the number of real soldiers was not more than forty thousand. Among the troops the National Guard of Paris was conspicuous for their bravery and the efficiency of their service. This body was made up of the young...
...Christmas day, the clubs took the fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio for Cincinnati. Much to the disgust of the students they were compelled to eat an unworthy Christmas dinner in the crowded station dining-room at Baltimore. At Washington, during the ten minutes halt a score of men under the lead of Shippen, second bass, whose home is in that city, ran up the hill to the base of the capitol in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful city. The natives were much astonished at the invasion...
...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 be improved. The same may be said of the chicken which is often positively unfit to eat...
...order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from the fact that there are times when certain articles are really palatable and good, while they are usually unfit to eat. The actual cooking for 850 people, including the servants, is done by five men and one woman. This number is entirely too small, and is much less proportionately, than that at West Point. To bring things up to a proper standard three men cooks should be added at a cost...
...fine muscular development. Indeed other factors have to be reckoned in the inquiry, and some do not lend themselves to tabulation. There are men whose organs show no defect, but who can not bear the strain of prolonged exertion, especially if severe. Some can not sleep, some can not eat, some have nervous disturbances, all of which suggests that mental qualities are involved, as well as bodily ones, in the production of the athlete. We have heard the statement made, by one who knew what he spoke of, that college men who aspire to success in both studies and athletics...