Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...other is called "Every Man his own Thayer Club; or, How to Live Cheaply." It is written by a high-rank man, and evidently embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet so as to economize time for studying. It is with this purpose that cracker and milk is made the staple article of food, while meat is restricted to Sundays. For, according to medical advice, studying should not begin after an ordinary meal for an hour; while with this diet digestion will...
Another case comes to mind of a friend who had strange, unaccountable ways with him, - a habit of starting to recitations without his hat, of sitting up all night and sleeping during the day, of experimenting how long it would be before an exclusive diet of crackers and milk would make him relish anything else, and last, but not least, of occasionally going to sleep by the wayside. It was mildly hinted that a connection with an institution in the neighboring town of Somerville would be more beneficial than a course at college. I am glad to say that...