Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen...
...from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully. One breakfast, for instance, might be from seven o'clock until a quarter of eight, and the second breakfast from eight until nine or after. Each person would have to come regularly, of course, at either one hour or the other, but that is better than being obliged to come at one hour regularly, without...
...regimen of the Yale crew is as follows: For breakfast, steak and eggs; for dinner, cold meat, lettuce and fruit, and a little oat-meal and rice-pudding; for supper, steak and vegetables. The crew rows twice daily...
...were to push on the engine of progress to realms of perfection, - were deprived, not of a luxury, but of a necessity. (Applause.) What did we do? Why, we sent in a petition, - we waited, - and the next morning butter-plates smiled on us as we sat down to breakfast." She then spoke of their achievements during the Sophomore and Junior years, - of their great crew, - of their Croquet Club, - of their Knitting-Needle Society, and its rival organization the "Hair-pins." (Groans.) Passing on to the principal events in their lives as Seniors, she playfully mentioned that Miss -- tried...
...hundred men go to early breakfast at Memorial...