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...order any, are served in his rooms, and he can order at very moderate cost pretty much what he pleases, so that he is comparatively little dependent on the hall dinner; but that in most colleges is a 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...
...fact, as the writer states, that the poor quality of food at Memorial drives many to solace themselves at drug-stores, etc., it might, after all, be not a bad plan to adopt the suggestion of one member of the faculty, and allow beer or ale, as at English universities, to be added to the bill of fare, especially, also, in consideration of the vile quality of drinking water provided at the hall. But all this would be superfluous, for we are quite assured that the writer's insinuations are base slanders. But the suggestion as to the need...
...question of the hour - athlete or aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...
...were ale, my darling...
...were ale, my darling...