Word: butter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled out to each student a small can of unsettled coffee, a size of biscuit and a size of butter weighing generally about an ounce. Dinner was the staple meal and at this the student was regaled with a pound of meat. Two days in the week, Monday and Thursday, the meal was boiled, and in college language, these were known as boiling days. On the five remaining days...
...very forcible and eloquent address on the "Choice of a Profession" in Appleton Chapel last evening. Every year, Mr. Hale said, 6000 men graduate from American colleges and 1,000,000 immigrants enter this country. These 6000 men are endowed with a liberal and not merely a "bread and butter" education. They are to be leaders among the people; they must accept this fact modestly, but surely, else they should not come here to spend three or four of the most valuable years of their lives. For some men there need be no struggle to decide what profession to select...
...advance in the market price of a few necessaries, such as butter and eggs...
...when you think what a field of hope and joy, desperation and sadness lies open to the man who has yet to learn that Burgundy should not be shaken before it is opened, that Rocquefort should be eaten with warmed crackers, that fish should be eaten with cold butter, and truly, I would willingly mortgage the governor's life insurance policy to experience again for the first time the varied soothing and tingling delights of a Pousse-cafe with a layer of old cognac...
...Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system, is a serious reflection upon the much vaunted executive of the college, and we do not hesitate to assert that the health of the students has in some cases suffered in consequence...