Word: beef
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subjective, that I do not find eating a trouble because I am not well, because I find no such difficulty when I am driven to the Holly Tree for a steak to support life. Every one knows what a vast difference there is between the taste of beef at home and at Memorial, and though it would be unreasonable to expect all the comforts of home, we ought at least to have the advantages of a first-class restaurant...
...newspaper to furnish this or not I do not care for the present, it is enough that the Nation does not furnish it, and therefore it is bad for us." In which I take the liberty of substituting for the words "newspaper" and "Nation" the words "roast beef," thus: Whether it is the province of roast beef to furnish this (enthusiasm of the idea) I care not, it is enough that roast beef does not furnish it, and therefore...
...crispness on the under surface, the majority are unambitious of any such refinement. The brown bread at Memorial is never superior and often inferior to that of the Thayer Club. Beside these articles we have nothing to eat at breakfast save cold meat, - very cold meat, generally cold corned beef, - cold bread, and milk...
...Friday dinner is nearly as bad, with salt mackerel and omnipresent corned beef taking the place of the meat which might be expected in a College not specially advocating the practice of a weekly fast. For several weeks the writer has been puzzled to know how an Irish stew and a dessert of very much boiled rice fulfilled the requirements of the constitution relative to furnishing three courses at dinner. This he leaves for others to solve. Before closing let me call attention to a remarkable property possessed by the turnip, - that vegetable described by a recent writer on food...
...sight of four or five hundred intelligent young gentlemen seated at table, and calmly discussing roast-beef and the leading topics of the day, is pleasing in itself. The architectural glories of the newly opened edifice double the charm, while the more or less cracked and clouded visages of our white-wigged ancestors lend the dignity of antiquity to the scene. The architect has kindly provided the public at large with a most desirable stand-point for regarding this spectacle. The number of respectable hats and bonnets which appear in the gallery as dinner-time approaches bears witness...