Word: faring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Chandler of the Class of '72 at Williams. The crew have used the boats of the Matthews Club during the week, but they expect to get their shell from Blakey to-day. They are at a training table at Memorial Hall, and express themselves very well satisfied with the fare...
...published in our last number an article finding fault with the present management at Memorial, and contrasting, to its disadvantage, the present fare with that which used to be furnished by the Thayer Club. We did not expect that all would agree with the writer of that article in regard to the details of his complaint; but until we had tried by conversation with different individuals to find what dishes are generally disliked, we had no idea of the difficulty of getting a sufficient number of men to agree in a single complaint to justify us in publishing that complaint...
This feeling is nature's voice condemning, not the quantity, but the quality of our fare...
...with the understanding that the food would in some measure correspond with the architectural appearance of the building, and that it would at least be considerably in advance of that furnished by and suitable to the Thayer Club. Some of these persons are disappointed. Let us compare the present fare with the past, and see why they...
...compare the dinners: Memorial Hall does certainly supply us with better soup than did the Thayer Club, but, in other respects, the fare now is almost precisely the same as under the old regime. Certainly one of the worst, and to the writer an utterly inexplicable feature of that system has come down intact, namely, the furnishing to those students whose distance from home prevents their recuperating their strength with better fare on Saturdays and Sundays, the most abominable dinners on those days that could well be set on a table. A passage from Dryden is very descriptive...