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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, food can be an expensive commodity if the student must eat his meals in Ithaca or in one of the University's large cafeterias. Even in the cafeterias, he must pay for his meals individually, since there is no contract rate. Thus board rates an be alarmingly high and cafeteria food can be alarmingly bad. Here again, students with an eye on both their pocketbooks and their digestive processes are likely to find the fraternities attractive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Administration Checks Fraternities While Recognizing Their Importance | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

Undergraduates who wish to eat at the Common now may do so only as the guests of graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Coupon Book System Bars Undergraduates From Grad School | 10/7/1954 | See Source »

Living to Eat. Rama is a simple soul who, like Candide, thinks he is living in the best of all possible worlds. He can scarcely believe what is happening to him until he is down to the last princely robe on his back. Fortunately, the Hermitage of Gluttons takes the exiles in. The Gluttons' creed: "A man lives by eating . . . Whatever gods there be, one of them must be in a man's belly." Rama joins them in sacrificing to their god three times a day, and finds a friend in one fellow traveler of the Gluttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Mock Epic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...tale, four fishermen who do their net-casting at night are racked with doubt about the honor of their wives. The god Shiva gives them a magic powder to eat that allows each man to fish and to spy invisibly on his wife at the same time. At first the wives prove faithful, but the fishermen soon make cuckolds of each other, and inattentively lose their boat and all but their lives in a storm. In an other story, a not-so-holy man seduces the wife of a rich merchant only to find in her insatiable arms a compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Mock Epic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

These folks here won't let me eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINESE POETRY SAMPLER: TOWN LIFE | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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