Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coincidences of the place and the date, of the books in the rescued youth's velveteen coat pockets, and by characteristic sentiments on liberty, death, diet and various conventions including matrimony which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...
...Memorial Hall provided such a place, and I understand that the reason that the cafeteria in the Hall was given up was because the students objected to the stereotyped diet, went elsewhere for their meals, and the proposition was no longer a paying one for the University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife...
...entire responsibility is with the manager. An experienced manager, with ample facilities at his disposal, could run a college dining-room which would offer a varied diet, without a financial loss. It requires a great gift to arrange a menu to please the critical palates of college men, but it can be done, granting that the clientele will occasionally eat elsewhere for the sake of change. To appoint a dining-room so that it will be physically attractive, which is a very heavy factor in determining the eating preference of people, is another great task that will confront...
...culinary department that his mis-management was most flagrant, and most felt. According to a contemporary account, the daily diet was mostly "porrige and pudding served without butter or suet." Mrs. Eaton, on whom her husband blamed the Squeersian board, admitted that "the flower was not so fine as it might nor so well boiled and stirred, and that the fish was bad." Pressed as to the presence in the menu of one of the most stable of foods-today, the lady said, "Beef, they never...
...more conveniently located places could be provided, where students could get an attractive and scientifically correct diet, it would certainly make for the better health of those students who now 'eat around'. Many of the cases which come under my observation can be traced directly to this unfortunate habit...