Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need money. It seems that his warning was not heeded and that his estimate of a debt of $1000 had no effect upon some of our long purses in Cambridge, but even $800 more has been added to the burden, so that now we are in as bad a condition as we were two years ago. The situation is this: The '86 management left $600 debt and $1200 was added last year, not so much in increased expenditures as in a lack of receipts. Who are to blame...
...their regular work, and to do so, must neglect something which ought to be done. The employees themselves recognize this and in the language of one of the them, 'would consider themselves in a perfect paradise in the kitchen if the extras were abolished." The system itself is a bad one, as either there must be great waste and loss to the association if a sufficient supply of all perishable things on the list is kept on hand, or if only a little is provided as is now done those alone who order first can be served and the annoying...
...knows beforehand just what to expect. This could be easily changed and such a variation adds to the relish of their meals. By lessening the number of vegetables served each day a greater variety could be offered without increase of expense. The fish is almost uniformly bad and everybody would be willing to give it up on four days of the week if the quality on the remaining days could be improved. The same may be said of the chicken which is often positively unfit...
...number of excellent suggestions. The principal fault to be found with Memorial fare is the poor cooking of the food, due to the insufficient number of cooks, the overtaxing of their patience by the order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from the fact that there are times when certain articles are really palatable and good, while they are usually unfit to eat. The actual cooking for 850 people, including the servants, is done by five men and one woman. This...
...University of Michigan. The institution of a department of history and English literature, in 1855, at the University of Michigan was one of the first academic recognition's of history in this country. At this time Harvard stood alone in the honor of a distinctly endowed historical professorship. Yale bad no historical professorship until 1865. Columbia College called Dr. Francis Lieber to its new professorship of Historical and Political Science in 1857, the year after Dr. Haven's first retirement from academic life. During the first of his two years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Haven appears to have...