Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes eccentrically decorative, as when he fondles a favorite word (panache, chryselephantine) or interpolates an essay on ancient music or a sermon on international law. However entertaining, the devices are finally irrelevant and intrusive. Their cumulative effect is as pointless as a sword swallower who decides to eat the hilt first because the paste jewels seem so bright and chewy...
...time being, however, the number of meals taken on interhouse at Harvard and Radcliffe must be kept approximately equal, Radcliffe should provide more nights for Harvard men to eat in their rather small facilities; this is the only way to meet complaints about "Harvard-only" nights which crowd out graduate students or people from other colleges. The present selection of Tuesday or Thursday nights, and Wednesday with advance notice, is not satisfactory under any circumstances...
They often arrive in San Juan to find that their confirmed hotel reservation has long since gone to someone else. If they finally get into one of the overbooked establishments, they have to make dinner reservations a day in advance just to eat when they want in their own hotel. They pay stiff prices for almost everything, and the cab drivers hurt their feelings by speaking English when they try out their high school Spanish. But this is Puerto Rico, and this year the tourists, the mainlanders, statesiders, continentals, or just plain gringos are flying down as never before...
Partriotic Harvard undergraduates, dedicated to the encouragement of creeping mergerism through interhouse dining, are presenting themselves at Radcliffe bell-desks and volunteering to eat enough meals to keep the system going...
Five Kirkland boys who "like to eat with girls" showed up at Moors on Wednesday night. They fared better than their comrades had at Comstock because a friend of theirs in the dorm recognized the urgency of filling the Moors quota...