Word: meats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some of them display a tendency to crispness on the under surface, the majority are unambitious of any such refinement. The brown bread at Memorial is never superior and often inferior to that of the Thayer Club. Beside these articles we have nothing to eat at breakfast save cold meat, - very cold meat, generally cold corned beef, - cold bread, and milk...
Bread with the bean, perhaps, and broken meat...
...Friday dinner is nearly as bad, with salt mackerel and omnipresent corned beef taking the place of the meat which might be expected in a College not specially advocating the practice of a weekly fast. For several weeks the writer has been puzzled to know how an Irish stew and a dessert of very much boiled rice fulfilled the requirements of the constitution relative to furnishing three courses at dinner. This he leaves for others to solve. Before closing let me call attention to a remarkable property possessed by the turnip, - that vegetable described by a recent writer on food...
...this all. Men will not be satisfied, after being without food for five hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval between meals is so short. This will considerably increase the expenses, and for this increase there is no margin left in the price of board, which already exceeds four dollars. Retrenchment must be made somewhere, and it will inevitably be made...
...gained at the expense of that from 6 to 8, and, by the change, hard students, to do their three hours' work in the evening, are forced to sit up till eleven; and, finally, that there would be need of more gas at the Hall, and that more meat would be required at lunch than is now needed at tea, in consequence of which the fare would not be so good. Of course, some of these questions can be argued, but the upholders and opposers of the proposition seem to consist respectively of those who take exercise and those...