Word: beef
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...West is sending some of its educated sons East. A dinner was given recently to some Western cowboys, and among the dishes on the menu were the following: Pampas oysters, flapjacks, jerked beef and Tarantula juice...
...promising candidate for coxswain of the '90 crew weighs 86 pounds with his winter beef...
...impartial and unprejudiced observer of foot-ball games during the past season, it must have been decidedly apparent that the game, as played by the principle college elevens has very little that will entitle it to public favor. The game is still a violent struggle, where beef counts for almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury...
...there need be no fear on the part of the Steward at seeing men leaving, and he can consequently make the food as poor as he wishes without danger of lessening the large number of men who eat in the Hall. It was but to-day that the cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than any substance of nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such food is really injurious, and we have in mind now at least one student who is obliged to leave on account of his health, because...
Roast, Ribs of Beef, Turkey, Cranberry Sauce...