Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place, the board may be said to have greatly improved on the whole. The breakfasts and dinners are far superior to the corresponding meals of last year. The lunches however, are no better than before, while the desserts at dinner, or rather, the pastry is not so good. The fruit, however, is much better. So that all that can be asked is that the character of the lunches and the pastries be improved and that with all this improvement the price of board be kept within reasonable limits. The only change that I have to suggest beyond these...
...last regular meal of the year at Memorial will be dinner Tuesday, June 26th. An extra breakfast will be served Wednesday, June 27th, from 7.30 to 9.00, to be paid for in checks at the rate of 25 cents for each person...
...English students dine?" Each college at Oxford has its dining-hall, or commons, where the late dinner is taken by a large number of men together. But the habit of eating alone, so foreign to American tastes, prevails to a large extent in England, and most college men take breakfast and luncheon in their rooms, either alone, or with some fellow student. These meals are prepared by the student himself or his scout, and the provisions are frequently obtained from the store-room or commons buttery, and charged on the student's bill. Orders for dinner are given...
Mild sarcasm of the Courant regarding Harvard: "Not to carry a silver-headed cane to breakfast is considered in 'bad form,' and the man who does not own a real bull-pup is an outcast." We are crushed...
...services which we commonly expect of a janitor are rendered for seniors or sixth-form men at Rugby, by the boys in the lower forms. The first-form boy blacks his senior's shoes, runs his errands, prepares his breakfast and holds himself in readiness to do almost anything that his senior wishes. This is called "fagging." "The sixth-form boy may be a tailor's son, the first-form fag the son of a duke; school distinctions take precedence of all others." This custom of fagging is gradually dying out, however, much to the disgust of the conservative fathers...