Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...qualified for the place. Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that the President was obliged to curtail the bill-of-fare for sanitary reasons. If the Association continues as it has begun, - and the directors should see to it that it does, - a dissolution of the Commons, the horrors of which we attempted to depict in the last Crimson, need no longer be feared...