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...field kitchen which has recently been presented to the Corps was the gift of Benjamin Joy '05, according to a recent official announcement. Its capacity is great enough to furnish each man in the Regiment with a canteen cup of hot soup, which combined with such cold rations as might be carried in the haversack would compose the mid-day meal of troops during manoeuvres. The gift is a necessary one, and is much appreciated by the Military Office...
...where the control of the state is more strict, such objectors might be put in pauper institutions. In the Cannibal Islands, where (they say) the control of the state is less strict, objectors to war might be forced to the alternative of entering either the army or the tribal soup kettle. As it happens, we live in the United States, where men must work to live, but are spared the burden of fighting to live...
...conversation we have had on the subject. I think something like the following course will meet their approbation. For breakfast: wheat or corn bread, at the choice of each particular, with butter, and milk, or Coffee-au-lait, at the choice of each. No meat. For dinner. A soup. A dish of salt meat, A dish of fresh meat and as great a variety of vegetables, well cooked as you please...
...basement of the Smith Halls, on the southern side, is the immense kitchen for all the dormitories, with its capacious ovens, its steamers and caldron-like soup kettles...
...cannot make a true gentleman; with them the simplest, most uneducated countryman is the equal of a belted earl. Among others, he chose, to illustrate his point, the story of the rough soldier-hero at the dinner-table of his commanding officer. It was in India, and, while the soup was being served, ice as precious in that climate, as diamonds, was passed around to cool the champagne. The soldier took a lump, glanced round, and dropped it in his soup: and silently, apparently as a matter of course the officers followed his example...