Word: faring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Memorial Hall is the place where the students eat. I enjoyed seeing this exquisite structure very much, but being, as you know, nearsighted, failed to grasp its full beauties. A pleasant young man showed me over the Hall. The Bills of Fare on notable occasions are engraved on slabs and put up on the walls; I tried to read these, but my eyes were not strong enough...
...other day, as I was walking up one of the aisles of Memorial Hall at the dinner hour, and trying to get some idea of our bill-o'-fare from the dishes on the tables right and left, I caught snatches of topics that seemed appropriate for any place but the dinner-table. At one table there was going on an excited discussion over the solution of oblique triangles, at another I heard a man quoting Whately verbatim, and before I reached my seat unpleasant associations connected with sulphuretted hydrogen and cyanide of potassium were suggested by an embryo chemist...
...University that I desire to call attention to it through the columns of the Crimson. It has been proposed, in addition to our usual limited choice, to place upon the tables lists of extra dishes that may be ordered by such students as are dissatisfied with the regular fare, and are willing, by paying a little more, to arrange the menu to better suit their respective tastes. These extra dishes are to be prepared by the steward, and furnished at a price just large enough to cover the cost of supplying them, and the list is to be comprehensive enough...
...tables and insuring the success of the Association; and, moreover, it will lessen the price of the regular board; for each man would pay the regular price beside paying for such extras as he might order; but those who took extras would naturally not consume the regular fare, although they pay for it; therefore all the non-consumption would go to the credit of the general stock and thus decrease the general expense...
...Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that the President was obliged to curtail the bill-of-fare for sanitary reasons. If the Association continues as it has begun, - and the directors should see to it that it does, - a dissolution of the Commons, the horrors of which we attempted to depict in the last Crimson, need no longer be feared...