Word: butter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many men returning late and hungry from the scratch races, were obliged to put up with bread and butter at Memorial for lunch. It seems as if the management on such an occasion, might have made arrangements to have the lunch saved beyond the usual time...
...studied, particularly here at Harvard. The entire discussion of the Greek question has been made on so-called practical grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world for centuries past. We must keep abreast of the modern movement and more especially consult...
...will be interesting to note that the following amount of food is daily consumed at Memorial : 110 loaves of bread, 1200 rolls, 2 barrels of flour, 720 to 850 qts. of milk, 90 pounds of butter 130 pounds of sugar, 50 pounds of oatmeal, 35 pounds of cracked wheat, 1,000 pounds of beef (when used twice a day), 500 pounds of mutton, and 640 pounds of poultry...
...reluctant to find fault at all, when such an improvement has been made. But when, inevitably, one morning in each week, the only meats provided are those ever welcome delicacies, liver and bacon and sausage, some who do not relish such dishes must either breakfast on bread and butter and sweet potatoes, or resort to the convenient, but for some expensive, order slip. If the writer did not know that others besides himself were incommoded by this rather unhappy combination, he would have let the matter pass without comment. Cannot the directors or others in authority see that a change...
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...