Word: ates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...October the number of boarders on the "fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals...
...fierce competition of today, said Mr. Fletcher, when the smallest advantage is effective, superior personal efficiency is a power for success. This efficiency may be gained by economy of nutrition. The primitive man ate only when he was hungry, and he chewed his food thoroughly, because nature made it hard. The man of today eats when he is not really hungry, and because much of his food is liquid or soft, he does not chew it enough...
...have a right to demand from the management some explanation for the almost criminal negligence of which someone has been guilty. On Sunday at dinner there was no meat served, but, in its stead, chicken croquettes. On inquiry I find that about four men out of every five who ate the croquettes were severely ill as a result--so ill as to be practically unfit for work next day. The steward evidently did not know, or did not take the trouble to remember, that meat may rot and become poisonous. But it is the steward's duty to look...
...yesterday's CRIMSON as having left College on account of ill health, yet I feel that, in justice to the correspondents of the Boston newspapers, I should make a slight explanation. The gentleman who wrote the communication yesterday was greatly mistaken when he thought the unfortunate student in question ate sufficient food. Among the waiters at Randall Hall it was often remarked that this student ate the least of any man in the Hall, and that means that his diet was absurdly light and insufficient...