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...friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with beer; wines are not allowed. There is a very simple tea at six, and supper of bread and cheese and, I believe, cold meat, if one wants it, before going...
...little improvement in lunch and dessert...
...What have you got for dessert...
...dessert was brought; and I, a boating-man, made a dinner of a plate of ice-cream and some graham bread. I was thankful even for that, and partook of the feast in silence and meditation. I arose from the table, convinced that the great evil of the Dining Association lies not so much in the fare and in the preparation of it, as in the waiters. The two with whom I have been made acquainted, and all whom I have noticed, are in a chronic state of ill-humor, and sadly need...
...average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert...