Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...muscles standing out like whip-cords, bends to the oar. Five o'clock thirty minutes is the fashionable hour for dining, and in fact, is the only time the Harvard man enjoys his meal. This is the dinner hour. In the morning he sleeps too long to relish his breakfast; at noon he lunches on soup and cold meats. But at half-past five he crowds into Memorial, is in good spirits, meets everybody and growls at the waiters. College House and Beck Hall sit side by side, discuss in familiar terms, and Harvard puts on her most cosmopolitan manners...
...about the middle of the forenoon, as then the vital energy is at its height and more work can be done, both physical and mental. The next best time for exercising is the afternoon, from four to six, and the worst time of all, the early morning before breakfast. The custom in the rural districts of rising about four A. M. and working several hours before breakfast, especially when but a light supper is taken the night before, is, in the doctor's opinion, simply barbarous, as the body is in the very worst condition possible. During his college course...
...steward of Memorial Hall on a number of the boarders. My own personal experience, which is substantially the same as that of the others, was as follows: I came into the hall a few minutes before nine o'clock, while the doors were still open, and on ordering my breakfast, was informed by the waiter that my order had "given out" - a notorious and disagreeable feature in the management of the hall - but that he would get me something as soon as it came up from the kitchen below. In company with several other men at my table in like...
MEMORIAL HALL., Nov. 4, 1882. Cocoa will be served every morning at breakfast, beginning with today...
Translated from the Omnibus: Professor - "Meier, where is your thesis?" Meier - "I believe you have it there in the hand." Professor - "So? When have you it then written?" Meier - "Sunday morning at the breakfast - or, rather directly after. Professor - "I see here but no work. Will you your-self convince? The sheet is empty!" Meier - "Thunderweather then have I out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass in the milk-glass dipped...