Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make my objections clearer by analyzing the effect which Memorial Hall fare has on me. I do not think that the amount of studying which I do is too much; I am always regular in my exercise, and a portion of every day is spent in some kind of relaxation; I take-every precaution to insure health, and yet I find that I have to force myself to eat as a matter of duty, and my life is wretched because of the unpleasant taste that lingers in my mouth after a day of Memorial fare. I am convinced that...
...them to have three separate courses at dinner, and, though that particular reform may have been unnecessary, there is certainly plenty of room for further improvements. The price is too low to allow our meals to be made appetizing, and much of our food is therefore of a cheap kind; the meats are from inferior cuts, or are not well carved; we do not have anything warm at lunch; the tablecloths and napkins are coarse or small, and I do not dare to notice how seldom they are washed; in short, as I have said, while all credit...
...quite another kind...
...contribute what they otherwise would have had they been requested to do so while in college. Also students, as a rule, are better able to subscribe while in college than they are for several years after graduation; and if a call for money to aid an object of this kind is to be made upon a class in college, it ought certainly to be made in the Junior rather than the Senior year, when the expenses of a student are heavier than at any other time...
...compelled to eat exactly similar provisions, but classical men and mathematical men, those who are destroying themselves with chemicals, those who are wandering in the wilds of mediaeval history, and those who are floating in the calm atmosphere of philosophy, are one and all required to eat the same kind of food, with no other difference than squash or no squash, potatoes mashed or potatoes boiled...