Word: food
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...house, where their training tables could be kept, and where they could conveniently come together to discuss athletic affairs. The training table for this year's foot ball team cost $2 300, a sum which the college regards as totally out of proportion to the real expense of the food, etc, Monday a meeting of the managers of the foot ball, base ball, lacrosse, and track athletic associations was held to consider the ways and means of building the new house. The foot ball management offered to give the larger part of their surplus for the present year...
...report of the Foxcroft Club is a compliment to the managers. It shows that good, substantial board can be got in Cambridge at very reasonable prices, and that hereafter no one need be kept away from Harvard on account of the high price of food. The new method by which the club will be carried on is a matter of moment. It will be noticed that the college authorities have seen best to withdraw from the direct management of the club, now that it is so well started, and that hereafter the students will have it in their own hands...
...hotel mode of conducting Memorial Hall is carried into effect next year, as the recent vote of the Fellows infers, the place will become hardly bearable. The noise and odors arising from the cooking of food for seven hundred men, and the hurry and disorder of its distribution, make the hall now only endurable because it is cheap. Most men are obliged to board at the cheapest place, but that is no reason why they should be forced into eating in the midst of nearly all imaginable discomforts. And, moreover, it is only putting off the difficulty for a short...
...rooms. About one hundred and fifty men take one or more meals at this club each day, and there is still a large waiting list. Thirty men take lunches only. All the meals are served a lacarte. It is the main purpose of the club to serve thoroughly good food at cost. Tea, coffee and cocoa cost three cents; a glass of milk, two cents; various kinds of bread, one cent; pies, five cents; cold meats, ten cents; eggs, eight and ten cents; soups, five cents; roast beef or mutton, twelve cents; vegetables four or two cents; pudding, five cents...
During the summer the Foxcroft Club has fitted up an additional dining room, and thus doubled its seating capacity. It now numbers 125 men, with a waiting list of 20. The kitchen arrangements have been much improved and a larger variety of food will be provided than last year. During the summer the club opened its rooms to the students of the summer school, and about forty men took advantage of this privilege...