Word: cake
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Various suggestions have been made as to how we can best eat our cake, and have it too, that is to say spend more and ask for less. The most obvious of these is "for the debts to be paid off more gradually and "for the improvements to be made under borrowed money, if necessary." This proposal to lay our burdens on the future, will hardly appeal to any one who believes in a conservative management of our finances. If our present debt were to be spread over ten years, it would at that rate, take twenty years or more...
...club on their grounds at East Lexington yesterday morning by the score of 185 to 148. Owing to the high wind and extreme cold the shooting was not very good. The scores of each team follow: HARVARD. MIDDLESEX. Hilliard 41 Sawyer 31 Bancroft 39 Dennison 31 Phelps 36 Cake 33 Colson 35 Knowlton 19 DuPont 34 Burton 34 Totals...
...music was appropriate. The singing of the choruses was decidedly good, but their acting showed a lack of training. Especially attractive were the songs: "Private Brown," sung by J. M. Ross '01, and "It's Very Very Funny but it's So," sung by T. Stensland 2L., and the cake walk dancing of W. H. Taylor...
...principle articles of food used at dinner are 80 gallons of soup, 350 pounds of fish, 1500 pounds of meat, 10 bushels of potatoes and one of rice, two barrels of fresh vegetables, from 10 to 20 cans of vegetables, 70 gallons of ice cream and 150 pounds of cake or 40 gallons of pudding. Each day $275 is paid for meat, $50 for vegetables, $60 for deserts and $50 for milk. The total cost of food per day is about $470, with $125 for service. The extra orders amount to about $30 each...