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During the Revolution Harvard Hall was used for the storage of army rations including barrels of salt beef contributed by neighboring towns. The building was of great use to the commissary department as its kitchen was the largest in New England. The troops were quartered in Massachusetts Hall...
...Council for reimbursement show that one William Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
...Hall contained a Library, Mathematical, Philosophical, and Hebrew schools on the top floor, a chapel, and general hall on the main floor, and in the collar were the kitchen, buttery, and food storage facilities. The apparatus and books were replaced by public contribution. An interesting and probable novel innovation for the new building was a lead roof to reduce fire hazard. It was this roof which, in 1776, was removed to furnish bullets for the Revolutionary Ordnance Department. The roof is reported to have weighed several tons...
...Florence Denman, 53, sued Aaron Denman, 67, for separate maintenance, charged that he had bought her an automobile, then chained it to a beam in a barn so she could never use it, that he had not spoken to her since 1927, that he smeared grease on the kitchen floor after it had been scrubbed, that he refused to buy coal in winter, sat on the porch while she chopped firewood, took the bulbs out of the radio, gave away the family vegetables, hid the food in the garage...
...invariably bad or at any rate poorly cooked; that sirloin cutlets appear in "a most blighted form" and that the coffee is always cold. Others say that they receive black looks for entering the dining halls near the time limit and are often hurried on nights when the kitchen help is anxious to clear...