Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...largely based on the ancient languages. All the arguments I have yet seen from those who advocate the giving of this degree to indicate simply the completion of a four year's course of study, remind me of those used by the wolf when he had determined to eat the lamb; having made up their minds to do a thing - for reasons of expediency, perhaps - they justify their action by the best arguments within the reach of a bad cause...
This work if followed in all its details might make a good memory, and undoubtedly would benefit anyone, but such rules as, "eat carefully," "drink carefully," etc., are not always obeyed, even though they have been dictated to the world by many writers for years, and the inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book...
...mothers must, people made a big talk over it and said they were all badly brought up. Not content with all this, now within a few days they say that she shows favoritism in giving her boys pocket-money, that she doesn't give some of them enough to eat and that although she has plenty of money, she won't build an addition to the house, but allows the boys to be crowded out, to sleep in the shed or at the neighbor...
...while the waiting list is so large as it is at present, there need be no fear on the part of the Steward at seeing men leaving, and he can consequently make the food as poor as he wishes without danger of lessening the large number of men who eat in the Hall. It was but to-day that the cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than any substance of nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such food is really injurious, and we have in mind now at least one student...
...might almost be inclined to doubt the truth of the old adage that "man should eat to live and not live to eat" when we consider yesterday's alumni dinner. When one can eat at the same board with such men as sat in Memorial Hall on November 8, 1886, and hear such a flow of eloquence issue from their lips as then was heard, then he may boldly say that he has "lived to eat." It is not often that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon...