Word: meats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trip, made even in a Cambridge horse-car, will be well rewarded by a view of the window through whose mellow tints the sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors and harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names...
Teacher - "John, what are your boots made of?" Boy - "Of leather, sir." Teacher - "Where does the leather come from?" Boy - "From the hide of the ox." Teacher - "What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and shoes, and gives you meat to eat?" Boy - "My father." - [N. Y. Tribune...
Setting aside the gross misrepresentations and violent language of the editorial, the actual facts that it states are these: 1 - Old meat was delivered at the hall by the contractors, and the evil discovered by the employes before the meat was cooked; and 2 - some of the waiters are inefficient...
...best house-keepers. From the fuss that the writer makes over it, one would think that instead of the evil's being discovered in time by the very persons whose business it was to discover it, the unfortunate writer had been forced to eat the whole of said meat...
...Memorial partook so much of the nature of a violent personal attack upon the steward. Whatever may be said of Mr. Balch in his capacity as steward, he is, so far as we know, a perfectly honorable man, and therefore incapable of wittingly serving to boarders at Memorial meat which was tainted or unfit to eat. If the contrary is true, and can be proved by our contemporary, we will admit ourselves to be mistaken, and commend the article in question as timely and just. Until this is done, however, we will give Mr. Balch the benefit of the doubt...