Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 300 Freshmen have petitioned the University to allow them to eat "a certain number of meals in the Houses every week with upperclass friends without further charge...
There is at present a complicated arrangement whereby first year men eating in the Union may signify their desire to eat in the Houses by signing in their dining room. This privilege was inaugurated as an experiment last year and was only allowed during the few weeks preceding the filing of House applications. Each man was allowed to eat three times in each House...
Favorable action on the present petition, requesting a meal a week during a three-month period, should provide adequate opportunity for a leisurely consideration of the Houses. If the House Masters believe that the Freshman should have the chance to eat with upper-classmen, however, there is no reason why the privilege should not be extended for the entire year...
...clan under consideration in Let Freedom Ring is named McClure and is made of tougher fibre than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...child was born without a skullcap. "The third case was that of a farmer suffering from an incurable and agonizing disease. He died clasping my hand, and murmuring, 'God bless you, doctor.' "The fourth case was a man suffering from the same disease and unable to eat, drink or sleep. He was in agony beyond the torment of the damned. He also died with a smile on his face and with his hand in mine. "The fifth case [had] the same disease.* I had no hesitation in ending his life." The author of this confession, printed last week...