Word: flour
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with comfortable straw cots. We rise at five and go out into the yard to wash bye y time-honoured pump, after which y head professor - there are two tooters beside - conducts prayers. Oh Jno! how proud I am to be a son of one of the glorious May-flour pilgrims! How I delight in this matutinal devotion! How it strengtheneth me for y daily duties. We have twenty recitations a week. My hardest branches are Spelling and arithmetic. In y latter I find compound fractures especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there...
...average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert...
...morrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin' day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there's a barrel of flour or a kag of whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put a stitch in the worst rip in the biler [here he winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be off some time Thursday, that's day after to-morrow. Anyhow, stranger...
...items of expenditure by the base-ball club strike us (for we confess to an utter ignorance of the game) as somewhat miscellaneous and peculiar. There is 'Rope,' 'Flour,' and 'four Policemen,' who kept the ground, we may presume, on the occasion of the match on Jarvis Field. The bed-makers at Harvard appear to be called 'Goody,' as a term of general opprobrium or endearment...
...Flour...