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...possessed of ordinary gustatory organs who has had the misfortune to dine during the past two years in Memorial Hall, at Harvard, will be surprised to learn that the students have almost to a man ceased to avail themselves of it, and that the meals there are to come to an end unless by the 22d more diners are forthcoming. High thinking may consort exceedingly well with plain living, but plain living is not poor living, and poor living has been the main feature of Memorial Hall. Carelessly cooked food, served half cold, with execrable tea, and yet more execrable...
This, then, is the question of the hour - athlete or aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...
...Dine with me to-morrow," agreed Yung, "and you shall know my decision." Then, with expressions of good-will on both sides, the philosopher took leave of his host...
CHAPTER IV.Tootsy was invited to dine one evening with a certain aristocratic family of Cambridge. Her friend of '84 was there. He was a very aesthetic fellow, though he dressed rather loudly, and brushed his hair over his ears in a peculiar way which led Tootsy to think that some one had been pulling it. She told him of this in her frank way. He laughed, and answered, "It's quite the ta-ta thing." Tootsy opened her hazel-nut orbs in astonishment, and said, "You use some kind of hair preparation." This would have floored an ordinary...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.MY DEAR KIN BEYOND THE SEA, - I am always glad to dine with Americans, for I consider Americans the salt of the earth; but I am needed at home just now to prevent that puppet Beaconsfield from imposing on the people by his tricks...