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...members of the association will dine at the Parker House, on Tuesday, Dec. 18th. The reception room will be open at half past five; dinner will be served promptly at six. Dr. William Everett will preside. Tickets ($2.50) may be obtained at Parker's, or by application to Mr. William Gallagher, Jr., at the school building. It is hoped that all intending to be present will procure tickets before Dec. 15th...
Concerning Prince Albert Victor at Cambridge, Labouchere says: "It is cruel to condemn an unfortunate young man to dine at a high table among the dons, whose conversation is of the dullest description...
...first questions a visitor to Memorial Hall, the largest dining-hall in the world, asks, as he sees the four, or five, or six hundred Harvard students at lunch or dinner, is, "How do the English students dine?" Each college at Oxford has its dining-hall, or commons, where the late dinner is taken by a large number of men together. But the habit of eating alone, so foreign to American tastes, prevails to a large extent in England, and most college men take breakfast and luncheon in their rooms, either alone, or with some fellow student. These meals...
...means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier 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...
Besides in England the student only takes his dinner in the hall, and if he gives notice in the morning that he shall not dine there is in some colleges never charged for his dinner, and in others only twice a week. His breakfast, luncheon and supper, if he choose to order any, are served in his rooms, and he can order at very moderate cost pretty much what he pleases, so that he is comparatively little dependent on the hall dinner; but that in most colleges is a comfortable, sustaining meal, washed down by some of the finest...