Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...photographic committee for exploration? Imagine the composite photographs of the four classes! '86 with well developed moustaches, large foreheads, and eyes beaming with the satisfaction of three year's work well done; '87 with faces indicating a tremendous amount of physical strength and the evident ability to eat four meals a day; '88 with a painful regard to dress, lurking signs of the coming moustache, and a general air of owning the college, which perhaps they come rightly by; and lastly '89, - but we draw the veil over the picture of childlike innocence and confidence which '89 would present...
...matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion and good temper to eat one's breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when the clock says 8.40 have the hands set carefully back to 8.31. We would not be understood as taking offence at the slight put upon Father Time, but we would like...
...feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend to help him. His friend was to visit the 'divinity' at her home, and plead for him; and Boswell sent him the following "Instructions:" "Set out in the fly on Monday morning. Take tickets for Friday's fly. Eat some cold victuals. Wednesday. Breakfast at 8; return at nine; Thomas will bring you to Adamtown a little after eleven. Send up your name. Give Miss Blair my letter. Salute her and her mother; ask to walk. Talk of my mare, the purse, the chocolate. Tell, you are my very...
...minutest details of our out-of-door life, even to the making of long journeys at the expense of the college, the corporation of old inspected and regulated the life of the Puritan collegians of the 17th century. They even felt called upon to say exactly what they should eat, and what they should drink, as the records still plainly show. On June 23, 1692, the corporation held a meeting in Boston, and discussed the subject of "Plumb Cake" with this result...
...times a little scrupulous about partaking of spermaceti soup, baked Indian, and corn starch, do away with these scruples for the sake of the companionship, recognizing, perhaps the importance of having good, cheerful company at table in order to get the most good from what he is eating there. Students, especially those who eat at club tables will enjoy looking back to their days of boarding at Memorial, and in days to come will meet their old fellow boarders with great pleasure...