Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well cooked. The meat is not so bad when bought, probably, but it is ruined in the cooking. The reason that it costs so much to run Memorial is that there is so much waste. One has to order so much meat to get a piece that he can eat. If everything was well cooked and nicely prepared, there would be nothing sent back to the screen. Now, every man in the hall orders the whole bill of fare and sends back everything two or three times until he gets some one thing that satisfies him. Let everything be well...
...average in New York was twenty-six in a thousand, and in 1881 thirty-one, and forty-eight cities in the United States exceeded that. Last year the deaths in New York exceeded the births by 12,494. He said there are six reasons for this deterioration: Americans eat and drink too much; they gamble in stocks and grain as well as at the gaming-table: they are a homeless people, nearly one-half of these living in boarding houses; disappointed ambition is another cause of decay, and finally there is a false standard of success - money...
...wealthier students board at comfortable boarding-houses and get a full meal, and probably, too, eat French dishes and drink champagne twice a week in Boston; but the poorer class has to choose between a cheap and nasty boarding-house and Memorial Hall, and so does not get that amount of nutrition which a young man in full physical and intellectual activity requires, whereas in well-qualified hands Memorial Hall might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision...
...twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...
...that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after half-past-five he has to eat cold vegetables or none? And why is it that if a person orders a steak, or some griddle-cakes, they come up either burnt to a crisp, or not half done? It seems to me that either we should have new cooks, or else those in our employ should have...