Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons became a corollary of the much-heralded plan to bind up the fragments of the first-year class. Apparently the plan has not been received with complete enthusiasm. With antiauthority-interference thickening, the New Haven atmosphere, it is natural that complaints should be raised against the prescribed physical diet as well as against a spiritual or a mental...
Premier Kato, in accordance with last week's anticipation, announced that the Government has under consideration an extension of the fran- chise. By means of this announcement, he succeeded in defeating a Universal Suffrage Bill in the lower House of the Diet...
Dante, among the great figures of literature, is probably the least familiar. The material of Homer is known to most school-children; Virgil is still part of the nominal diet in preparation for college; Milton, too, is taught in the schools. But Dante, neither ancient nor modern, falls between...
...furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification and every other branch of classical literature. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations and diet unparalleled...
True, neither Harvard or Yale is a Mr. Squeer's; but there are few who have not heard old graduates telling stories of Commons and old Grays Hall that rival "the unparalleled diet" and "warm rooms" of Dickens' famous institution...