Word: breakfast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another striking difference between the systems of the two countries is in the arrangements about meals. In England the student is thrown more upon his own resources. "His 'house' gives him a breakfast of tea and bread and butter; he markets for himself for what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality...
...first threw open its higher local examinations to young women as well as to young men. With a few alterations the routine of life at Girton is very much the same as in all the ladies' colleges. The hours of refection are much the same as in all homes. Breakfast, after prayers at eight, goes on from a quarter-past eight to nine. Luncheon is a movable feast from twelve to three. The dinner hour is six. There is tea at four, and again at nine in the evening. The lectures are generally given in the afternoon. There...
...athletic interest to look after or other distractions of that nature, the young women apply themselves more closely to their studies. Again, living on the hill is favorable to health and study. A run of a mile up hill to an 8 o'clock recitation after a hasty breakfast, with its concomitants of indigestion and ill-temper, is unknown to them. Sage College boasts a flourishing fraternity, or more accurately sorosity, Kappa Alpha Theta, which has chapters in several other colleges, most of them in the West...
...afterward treated his own fags very leniently. One of Gladstone's fags, John Smith Mansfield, now a police magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
Just before Gladstone entered Eton, in 1821, the Etonian, edited by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, had run its short, brilliant career; and Gladstone, though a Lower Boy, got acquainted with some of the contributors to that periodical, who used to come and breakfast with his brother Thomas. Among these were some who had acquired a real renown through their writings, and as Gladstone rose to the higher forms, the purpose of founding a magazine naturally suggested itself to him as one of the only methods that lay open to him for achieving scholastic distinction...