Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cook, '76, Yale's celebrated oarsman, was made captain of the University crew in his freshman year, and was also elected president of the Rowing Association of American Colleges for the same year. - Yale News...
...short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons of the thin and starving consomme and the ill-famed Scotch broth. Rumor has it that a new cook has been imported. Let us be thankful that he has not yet learned the methods of Memorial. Who knows but that at last an heroic soul has appeared who dares to resist the determined efforts of the management to lower the quality of the food to the second class restaurant...
...Harvard Total Abstinence League, formed in 1882, has held several public meetings which have been addressed by most prominent men. The League started out well this year. Its meetings have been well attended and its audiences very appreciative. Rev. Joseph Cook and Hon. Neal Dow have accepted invitations to address the League in the spring, Next Friday evening the League promises the college two rousing addresses from Col. Higginson and Gen. John L. Swift; the former is the well-known historian and lecturer, and the latter is the editor of The State, the organ of the Prohibition Party, and vice...
...stroke will be the regular "Bob Cook" stroke, and Percy Bolton, the celebrated single sculler of Sheffield Scientific School of the class of '86, will begin to coach them on March 1. In the meantime Captain Rogers, assisted by ex-Captain Cowles, will train the crew. They have as yet no training table, and no restrictions have so far been placed on their diet and beverages. It has always been felt that considerable valuable time has been lost each spring in changing from the action of hydraulic machines to the light swift shells that are used on the harbor...
...distilled spirits or of any such mixed drinks as punch or flip, in entertaining one another or strangers." Students were also forbidden to have liquors in their rooms, cut "lead off from Old College," or to make "tumultuous noises" in the college. There are elaborate directions "About the Steward, Cook or Butler" which we shall not review, as college "commons" must be a painful subject at all times...