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That the House dining halls are providing exactly the same food as last year and at the same price was made clear yesterday by the powers behind the serving of the three-meal-a-day routine. Not made obvious to the undergraduate epicurean was whether the University would continue the present policy throughout the year in an attempt to defy rising prices of meat and similar commodities. At present the cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase...
Oliver Alden, who denied himself the easier road when he was yet a mere compilation of chromosomes--and chose to be a male, is the protagonist of Santayana's story. Born of Epicurean Dr. Peter Alden and hypocritical, timidly tyrannical Mrs. Alden of Great Falls, Conn., he denies himself the easier road all through his life. He is a real Puritan, as Santayana explains in his "Prologue." "He kept himself for what was best.... His puritanism had never been mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness; it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn...
...stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite, but whose appetite and taste, happily enough, may be assuaged and satisfied by a nibble at a desert cactus, and he then is ready for another long and arid journey...
Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumerable other delicacies to whet the epicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere hours. No drinks, but if you bring your Open at 9.30 P. M.--stays so till all ingredients Jack will accommodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...
Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumberable other delicacies to whet the epicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere. Opens at 9.30 P M.--stays so till all hours. No drinks, but if you bring your ingredients Jack will accomodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...