Word: fording
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...comfortable, sustaining meal, washed down by some of the finest ale in England. The bad fare at Harvard has the effect of sending many students into Boston a great deal more than is desirable, for, astounding as it may seem, Cambridge, a town of sixty thousand inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied...
...recent appointment of Mr. Charles E. Faxon of Jamaica Plain to the chair of botany, of Mr. Edward Burgess of Boston to that of entomology, and of Mr. L. S. Ford, a graduate of the School, to the position of demonstrator in zoology, fills out the corps of instructors in the Bussey Institution to the original complement of seven. This department of the University is better fitted than ever before to give systematic instruction in the branches - agriculture, horticulture, and the knowledge of domestic animals - to which it is specially devoted...
...Ford & Sons...